April 5, 2009
Manuel sets opening lineup
CINCINNATI -- Jerry Manuel went ahead and announced his Opening Day lineup for tomorrow here against the Reds at Great American Ball Park. Here is the Mets' order for the...
Live from Toronto
By MARC BERMANTORONTO - Mike D'Antoni is nothing if not honest. Before tonight's game in Toronto, Canadian reporters were asking the Knicks coach about the Raptors, on a six-game winning...
CHINA'S FOREIGN MINISTER CONCERNED ABOUT BINGHAMTON KILLINGS
China's foreign minister today spoke with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton about the massacre of 13 people in upstate Binghamton where three people from China were among the dead....
GUNFIRE AT BRADY WEDDING
Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen's armed bodyguards opened fire on paparazzi at the couple's nuptials in Costa Rica, blasting out the windows of a pho tographer's SUV, and just missing...
OBAMA PRESSES FOR PUNISHMENT AFTER NORTH KOREAN ROCKET
The U.S. and its allies sought punishment Sunday for North Korea's defiant launch of a rocket that apparently fizzled into the Pacific, holding an emergency U.N. meeting in response to...
A-ROD SPEEDING UP RECOVERY
By JOEL SHERMAN' and GEORGE KINGForget mid-May. Alex Rodriguez is showing signs that he is going to return to the Yankees well before that.Hitting coach Kevin Long, who speaks daily...
A-ROD SPEEDING UP RECOVERY
By JOEL SHERMAN' and GEORGE KINGForget mid-May. Alex Rodriguez is showing signs that he is going to return to the Yankees well before that.Hitting coach Kevin Long, who speaks daily...
SON WATCHES DAD CRASH WW2 PLANE
A pilot practicing aerial maneuvers was killed today after he nose-dived a vintage World War II plane into the waters off Long Island before more than 100 horrified spectators --...
CARDINAL EGAN TO GET PACEMAKER
Cardinal Edward Egan, the archbishop of New York, is scheduled to undergo surgery Monday morning to receive a pacemaker. New York Archdiocese spokesman Joe Zwilling says Egan went to St....
Evans sent to Buffalo
As expected, the Mets sent prospect Nick Evans to Triple-A Buffalo this afternoon to make room for Gary Sheffield on the Opening Day roster. The Mets will have to make...
Plaxico at Final 4
ESPN.com reports that Plaxico Burress watched his alma mater Michigan State at the Final Four one day after being released by the Giants. Asked if thought he would play somewhere...
Sheff talks Mets, expectations
Here is video I shot before today's final workout at Citi Field of Gary Sheffield discussing his reasons for signing with the Mets and his expectations. Be sure to check...
Box Office: 'Fast & Furious' Opens to Whopping $72.5M In Surest Sign Yet of the Approaching Apocalypse
The shockingly unanticipated $72.5M estimated opening for "Fast & Furious'' -- above $30M above the best-over April debut, "Anger Management'' -- is an especially depressing reminder that, as William Goldman...
Cannes: No Welles Finale This Year, But Quite Possibly the Last of Ledger
Orson Welles' last, uncompleted film will not premiere at this year's Cannes Film Festival as rumored, Peter Bogdanovich tells me. Bogdanovich, who's been trying to get "The Other Side of...
HOW THE METS' SEASON MIGHT PLAY OUT:
1. Jake Peavy initially says he does not want to be a Met, but relents and the Mets win a July bidding war with the Angels to obtain San Diego's...
HOW THE YANKEES' SEASON MIGHT PLAY OUT:
1. Hanley Ramirez homers to beat the Yankees on June 19 at Pro Player Stadium, and after the game, Alex Rodriguez says how great it would be to have the...
RED BULLS CONFIDENCE IN SUCCESS
Despite all of the Red Bulls' offseason movements and mechinations, the fact is they will take the field today at hated archrival Chicago (3 p.m., MSG) as the only team...
MCGUIRE AN UNORTHODOX LEGEND
First of two parts THE NCAA Tournament is down to two teams - textbook mood music for untold memories of Al McGuire. In 1961, a Saturday workout was arranged for...
JUST PERFECT: STANFORD LAST TO BEAT UCONN
ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Eight points was the biggest deficit the undefeated Connecticut women have faced all season, and in that regional semifinal against California, the Huskies still were up...
HONDO OPENS SHOP
Let's get going here. Hondo's hiatus is history, which brings him back to when he last addressed HondoNation and advised the loyal citizenry to back the Cardinals and the over...
NOTHING TO FEAR BUT O HIMSELF
Inside the White House, it was March Madness heading into April Fool's Day when the president issued his comically inept proposal to save GM. Maybe Obama thought a few jokes...
A SEC TAX JOKE
If you're lucky enough to get a refund from the federal government this year on your taxes, enjoy the added comedy benefit -- a "savings and investment tips" flier from...
BUILDING THE PERFECT GOLF BALL
Like many golfers, Elias Balaras takes to the first tee with his excuses already prepared. But when he hits into the rough, his lament is scientific. "I just blame the...
CAN'T KICK THE TAX HABIT
Smoking is harmful to more than you health these days. With the addition this week of a new 62-cent federal levy, New Yorkers now pay more tax on a pack...
FISCH CATCHES FOUL
Not all corruption in Albany involves things like kickbacks, pay-to-play and outright theft. Consider the scheme state Inspector General Joseph Fisch uncovered at the Department of Taxation and Finance --...
COUNT HIM OUT
The Constitution of the United States of America mandates that "the whole number of persons" in the nation be counted every 10 years by means of a national census. It...
PENSION PAYOUTS
"End 20 & Out" (Editorial, March 29) contains a gross misstatement. FDNY and NYPD officers are not granted totally tax-free pensions after 20 years' service. Furthermore, I recall paying a...
PUBLIC EYES
I am perplexed by your editorial criticizing the Department of Investigation's testimony about the impact of proposed budget cuts on the department's mission ("Investigator Clouseau," March 21). Like each agency...
GREED IS GOOD?
Kyle Smith says, "there is no such thing as greed" ("What's Wrong With Wanting More? Nothing," PostScript, March 29). Like many rich, conservative Republicans who cannot morally defend greed, Smith...
REQUIRED READING
Vicksburg 1863 by Winston Groom (Knopf) "The fate of the Confederacy was sealed at Vicksburg," Gen. Ulysses S. Grant is quoted at the front of this masterful telling of the...
THE ACCOUNTANT'S STORY
In the museum of organized crime, Pablo Escobar deserves a room of his own. He was the first gangster billionaire, listed by Forbes magazine in 1989 as the world's seventh...
BESTSELLER: COMMON SENSE
Joining "Atlas Shrugged" on the list of books to keep in the bunker, Paine's famous manifesto has jumped into the top 25 on Amazon. Probably a number of the readers...
IN MY LIBRARY: CHRISTOPHER DURANG
Growing up Catholic, playwright Christopher Durang says, he was haunted by "this thing called 'Index of Forbidden Books.' "I don't know what century it came from," he tells The Post's...
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES
The concept behind "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" isn't exactly brain surgery (Brains! Delicious, gooey brains!) -- but it certainly juices up a staid literary classic. I'm a bookish female,...
LOVE AS ALWAYS, KURT
"Love As Always, Kurt" is one of those "I knew a great man" memoirs, the kind that often promise intimacies but, ultimately, are written by those who were never quite...
UNTIL IT HURTS
Like most red-blooded American dads would be, Mark Hyman was proud when his son Ben showed promise as a baseball pitcher. "At twelve, he was a good pitcher with the...
ALL OTHER NIGHTS
Jacob Rappaport, the "tall, blond, nineteen-year old American boy" and son of a prominent New York Jewish merchant, is "inside a barrel in the bottom of a boat [headed to...
UNDER THE TABLE
Who knew cooking school could be so boring? Despite a promising title, there's not much cooking in between the covers of Katherine Darling's "Under the Table: Saucy Tales From Culinary...
DON'T BE SURPRISED IF...
Around the AL: David Ortiz, Mike Lowell and Jason Varitek are down enough because of age/injury that Boston must use its young pitching stockpile to obtain an offensive player to...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q & A WITH... BRETT GARDNER
The Post's Steve Serby chatted with Yankees' 25-year-old starting center fielder. Q: How often do you expect to get your uniform dirty during games? A: (Laughs) Oh man . ....
THE RUMBLE
Bronx afterburn MSG's new take on '77 sizzler MSG Network, adding its own exclusive interviews it calls "Summer of '77," is rebroadcasting "The Bronx is Burning," starting tonight. Reggie Jackson...
CUTLER GETS FRESH START IN CHICAGO
LAKE FOREST, Ill. -- Jay Cutler grew up rooting for the Chicago Bears in Santa Claus, Ind. Now, after a stormy exit from Denver, he's the franchise quarterback for his...
KANDJI'S IMPROVEMENT SHOULD HELP RED BULLS
Despite all of the Red Bulls' offseason movements and mechinations, the fact is they will take the field today at hated arch rival Chicago (3 p.m., MSG) as the only...
REALITY BITES BACK
Talk about a reality check. "The Real Housewives of New York City," a Bravo TV show featuring six Botox-happy women feasting on their 15 minutes of fame, promised to offer...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Hope he's not fussy about prison food. Lyndel Toppin, of Philadelphia, was arrested after attacking his fiancée for making his meatball sandwich the "wrong" way. Toppin became furious "due to...
MAKING IT & FAKING IT
A talker on the festival circuit, Friday's "Anvil! The Story of Anvil" follows the ups and many downs of a Canadian heavy metal band as they try to rock their...
PARTY IN YOUR PANTS
BOTTOMS up! Recent runway shows from Calvin Klein, Vera Wang and Phillip Lim have all taken a nod from Disney princesses by featuring a hard-to-wear trouser that are gathered and...
THE WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS
Winners JIM BALSILLIE Co-CEO of Research in Motion sees stock pop after reporting stronger than expected results. BANK CEOS Relief from accounting rules could mitigate losses from toxic assets. BYRON...
TV DANCE KING IN 'RAPE' BUST
A choreographer featured on the hit TV show "So You Think You Can Dance" was busted yesterday in Los Angeles on suspicion of sexually assaulting four of his students, police...
5 KIDS DEAD IN SLAY SHOCK
A Washington state man shot his five young children to death yesterday before turning the gun on himself, police said. Investigators found four of the kids -- including one boy...
IT'S EVERYTHING BUT THE GAME
* In Voice of the Fans [The Post, April 3], fans stated of the new Yankee Stadium: " . . . you don't need to ever go to your seats...
'NILE' SNAGS SANTA ANITA DERBY
Pioneerof the Nile still is learning how to run, and it showed halfway down the backstretch of the Santa Anita Derby in Arcadia, Calif. That's where the colt tugged his...
SPORTS SHORTS
MLB: Red Sox ship Buchholz to minors The Red Sox have optioned right-hander Clay Buchholz to Triple-A Pawtucket yesterday and placed five players on the 15-day disabled list. Right-hander John...
HEELS EXPECT TOUGHER SPARTANS
DETROIT -- At the time, it was a simple dress rehearsal, nothing more. The folks from the NCAA wanted a dry run for the big show to come, and Michigan...
UNC RUNS 'CATS OUT OF FINAL FOUR
DETROIT -- With about three minutes left in what would be an 83-69 loss to North Carolina in last night's national semifinal game, Villanova coach Jay Wright was going to...
MEET MARKET
Pucker up and get ready to freak out: Andy, a 31-year-old who bakes in the morning and rocks out at night, is looking for smooches and a bit of insanity.Kate,...
LOVELESS LUNCHERS
We were hoping for a midday match when Noelle, a 29-year-old office manager, and Corey, a 30-year-old Internet marketing consultant, met for lunch at Midtown spot Atria. Instead, we found...
COUPLES ON THE FLY GET BUSY AWAY FROM HOME
IT'S spring and love may be in the air, but babymaking just isn't what it used to be. Stressed-out New Yorkers -- especially career-minded overachievers in their late 30s and...
SNACK ATTACK!
The Mets have handed the Bronx Bombers their first loss of the season. In the Subway Series of sustenance between the Big Apple's two brand-new ballparks, the Amazin's spanked the...
AGENDA
Easy being green Whole Foods Market Tribeca, 270 Greenwich St.; 212-349-6555, teensturninggreen.org Most prom photos could be used as blackmail, but for the teens who participate in Monday's Project Green...
PUT A RING ON IT
THERE has to be a reason he's just not that into you. You met him at a bar, the sparks flew a mile high and after 20 minutes of conversation...
Q&A WITH SETH ROGEN
First Seth Rogen ushers in a new era of round-ish stoners playing leading roles, with "Knocked Up," "Zack and Miri Make a Porno" and "Pineapple Express." Then he goes and...
THE 'SCREAM' TEAM
Chris Cornell has traded in his grungy flannel for a baggy Rocawear sweat shirt. The wailing frontman behind Soundgarden and Audioslave went into the super-unknown with hip-hop producer Timbaland, but...
FREAKS & GEEKS
TO say that tonight's party at the Highline Ballroom will be a wild affair would be a gross understatement -- with an emphasis on gross. Swords will be swallowed. Fire...
ADOPT ME
Dylan is a 1½-year-old boxer who's smart, playful and friendly. Meet him from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Humane Society of New York, 306 E. 59th St.; 212-752-4840...
BY THE NUMBERS
DEAR DR FOX: I live in a community where we're allowed only two animals, but I have three. I went to the county kennel recently to adopt another, but was...
PUP NEEDS A LEG UP
AS reported Tuesday, Cassidy, an amputee mutt adopted from New York City's own municipal shelter, Animal Care & Control, has become a medical pioneer as the first American dog with...
GIRLS JUST WANNA GROW UP
ONE of the standouts in the New Directors/New Films festival (ending to night) has to be "Stay the Same Never Change," by Laurel Nakadate, a video artist and a photographer...
STAR-STUDDED SIMUL
THE world's oldest chess club is celebrating its 200th anniversary with what shapes up as the most spectacular simultaneous exhibition in history. The Schachgesellschaft Zurich said it has enlisted eight...
BRIDGE
MANY authors have produced books in an "over-my-shoulder" style. They describe their thoughts during a deal as the reader follows along. The late Terence Reese was a master of this...
VICTIM A 'SITTING DUCK'
It's a decision that will haunt her forever. Elisabeth Hayes, an English teacher at the immigrant center devastated by Friday's massacre, unwittingly saved her life by starting her vacation a...
US-CUBA THAW
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration intends to allow Americans to visit relatives in Cuba and send money back to their families on the communist island nation. President Obama plans to...
FLIER'S $50M SUIT: JETBLUE DROPPED BOMB ON ME
The accusations of a JetBlue gate agent have a Texas woman seeing red. Rosalinda Baez, 34, is suing the airline for $50 million, claiming its employee at Kennedy Airport lied...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Brooklyn * A Brownsville man was stabbed to death in his apartment building, cops said yesterday. Albert Holder, 31, suffered a single stab wound to the chest in a first-floor...
READY, BLAME, FIRE
Heads must roll! The chief watchdog of the government's $700 billion bank-bailout plan says top executives of struggling financial institutions must be fired if the economy is to have any...
CANDIDATE BLOOMY'S A BAM MAN
HE refuses to say for whom he voted in the presidential election, but Mayor Bloomberg is now hitching his political wagon to President Obama in hopes of defusing mayoral challenger...
SCHOOLGIRL RAPE HORROR
A girl was raped for hours on a school trip to Central Park last year -- and the school never noticed she was gone, according to a lawsuit. The 12-year-old...
3 OFFICERS SLAIN IN SICKO TRAP
PITTSBURGH -- A gunman wearing a bulletproof vest and "lying in wait" opened fire on officers responding to a domestic-disturbance call yesterday and killed three of them before being apprehended,...
POLS IN $TATE OF UTTER CONFUSION ON BUDGET
Two days after passing the largest budget in New York state history -- with a whopping 8.7 percent spending hike and between $5.2 billion and $8 billion in new taxes,...
DRAMA BEHIND HEROIC STAFFER'S 'PLAY DEAD' TRICK
The brave receptionist who was shot by Jiverly Wong but managed to play possum and call police doesn't think she's a hero. FAILED LIFE FOR KILLER 'COWARD'VICTIM A 'SITTING DUCK'...
BOTTOM LINE AT VELVET ROPE
An expensive coat check, "Euro Night" on Fridays and a 1,300 percent markup on a bottle of vodka. These are just some of the ways Marquee has remained a popular,...
PLAX LACKS TACT
At least this time Plaxico Burress was only shooting from the lip. The pistol-packing punk fired a string of profanities at a deputy sheriff two weeks ago after he was...
NYC HOME SALES DROP WORSE THAN AUTOS
HERE'S a headline to di gest if you own a Big Apple apartment: "Drop in New York Real Estate Sales Worse than Auto Industry's." Yes, read it and weep: Quarterly...
NATO'S B'DAY 'BASH'
Thousands of Molotov cocktail-wielding, anti-war protesters clashed with police and set fires along the Franco-German border yesterday, as President Obama gathered with European leaders to celebrate NATO's 60th anniversary. The...
PROBLEM WITH ROLLOVER CD
Dear John: Maybe you can help me out. I had a CD with First Savings and Loan, a division of New York Community Bank, worth over $52,000. I told the...
BARNEYS TO GET $ INFUSION
Apparel designers large and small can breathe a sigh of relief as the owner of struggling Barneys New York has decided to pump additional capital into the chain, The Post...
BULLISH ON WALL STREET: MORE GO FOR MBAS
Maybe these budding bankers know something Wall Street doesn't. Despite the dipping Dow and banished bonuses, future MBAs are flocking to business schools, gambling that the economy will turn around...
DOUBLEDOWN DEBACLE
EYEBROWS were raised recently when the bankrupt Doubledown Media, which at one time published Trader Monthly and other glossies aimed at the wealthy Wall Street set, filed its latest financial...
MARK TO MAYHEM
Wall Street analysts and former regulators are warning bank executives not to get too cocky with their new power over valuing their toxic assets -- and to keep them at...
FILENE'S BASEMENT: WE'LL WORK THIS OUT
Upper West Siders, rejoice -- the threat of a giant retail black hole forming at Broadway and 79th Street has been quieted, at least temporarily, as Filene's Basement has warded...
PAUL, RINGO & FRIENDS ARE TRANSCENDENT
The Beatles' Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr put in a hard day's night at Radio City Music Hall yesterday in a rare, blue-moon reunion concert. Why the Beatles now? The...
B'KLYN THUG SHOOTS GAL 5 TIMES
A nursing assistant and mother of one was fighting for her life last night after she was brutally shot on a Brooklyn street, cops and witnesses said. The 31-year-old victim,...
FAILED LIFE FOR KILLER 'COWARD'
The lunatic behind the Binghamton massacre was a pathetic, gun-loving coward who got divorced, lost his job and was driven to depression because he could barely speak English after many...
IMPORT W/ PINSTRIPES
Audi, the German carmaker stuck in a sales traffic jam behind rivals Mercedes-Benz and BMW, hopes the power of Yankee pinstripes will boost its brand recognition -- and US market...
CANCER SETBACK FOR FARRAH
Cancer-stricken "Charlie's Angels" star Farrah Fawcett has been hospitalized in what appears to be a setback in her battle with the deadly disease, according to published reports. The 62-year-old actress,...
N. KOREA MISSILE LAUNCH FRIGHTENS WORLD
North Korea last night successfully launched a long-range, multistage missile capable of hitting the United States in a move that sparked outrage around the world and stoked fears of the...
NEAR-FUTURE SHOCK: 700,000 TO LOSE JOBLESS $$
WASHINGTON -- In the coming weeks and months, hundreds of thousands of jobless Americans will exhaust their unemployment benefits, just when it's never been harder to find a job. Congress...
IN CHAPTER 11, MUZAK HOPES ITS SONGS WILL PLAY ON
FORT MILL, S.C. -- About the only quiet places in the headquarters of Muzak Holdings are, believe it or not, the building's elevators. The omission is intentional. Muzak management wants...
MERKIN'S PROFIT$
Details of the tens of millions of dollars that Ezra Merkin pocketed by funneling his clients cash to scammer Bernie Madoff -- plus alleged lies Merkin told to his investors...
HARLEM IS LOSING A BIT OF ITS $OUL
Dreams of a Harlem renaissance have been deferred. At least 14 projects along 10 blocks of 125th Street have been delayed, mothballed, killed or downgraded as a much-heralded development boom...
CARRION SPENT CAMPAIGN $$ FOR 'PARTING' PARTY
Former Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion spent more than $50,000 in campaign contributions on a party for supporters and to enrich the Bronx Democratic Party soon after he was named...
ERR TEMPERATURES
Rain or shine, you can bet that five-day forecast is usually wrong. A Post survey of the four leading local networks found their 11 p.m. newscast meteorologists were off an...
BUTTON TAKES MALAYSIAN POLE
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Brawn GP's Jenson Button will start today's Malaysian Formula One Grand Prix from the pole position, with concerns about how his car will perform in the...
WILD RIDE FOR BUSCH, PENSKE
FORT WORTH, Texas -- The exchange on the radio between frustrated Kurt Busch and car owner Roger Penske was far from cordial. While neither resorted to yelling, their back-and-forth made...
FISHERMEN OK WITH PROPOSED LICENSE FEE
PART of Gov. Pater son's new budget proposal an nounced this past week includes a saltwater fishing license, something we all knew was coming. Like the freshwater license, the saltwater...
SHERO, BURNS WORTHY OF INDUCTION
BOSTON -- The Hockey Hall of Fame announced new voting procedures beginning with 2010 that will allow the process to be less restrictive and more inclusive, specifically as it relates...
RED BULLS' GOAL: GET FIRST GOAL
Two games into the MLS season, the Red Bulls are looking for their first goal and their first victory, and they'll have to try to get them today (3 p.m.,...
SUMMER PLAN FOR CURRY
Coach Mike D'Antoni said Eddy Curry is likely finished for the regular season because of a recurrence of knee pain, and recommended the enigmatic Knicks center plays the July summer...
CHURCH PC ABOUT NEW GUY
Ryan Church and Jerry Manuel haven't spoken about how Gary Sheffield's arrival affects the outfielder. Both said there is no need. Church is being a good soldier and saying all...
KNICKS MISS PLAYOFFS FOR FIFTH STRAIGHT SEASON
The present continued to stink yesterday as the Knicks' 102-95 loss to the Raptors mathematically eliminated them from the playoff race. That marked five straight non-playoff berths and 36 years...
UNARMED GARY NO MATCH FOR TRICKY RIGHT
RIGHT field at the Mets' new stadium is slightly smaller than Wyoming, and possesses enough tricky elements -- a recess straight behind and jutting stands near the line -- to...
RALLYING FREGATA STEPS UP TO VICTORY
Track was fast. Both turf races (second, 11th), were taken off the turf; stiff wind was blowing with horses down backside, against them in stretch. FIRST RACE: Late scratch every...
MARK READY TO LET GOOD TIMES ROLL
Mark Teixeira dropped two not-so-subtle hints yesterday that he will enjoy hitting in the new Stadium. It won't count in his stats, but the Yankees' new $180 million first baseman...
NO EXCUSES FOR YANKS THIS YEAR
SOME might say it has been business as usual for the Yankees. What's spring training without a few distractions? Their spring began with the controversy surrounding Alex Rodriguez and was...
FREE-FALLING NETS ON BRINK OF POSTSEASON ELIMINATION
CHICAGO -- Realistically, the hope ended in the last two weeks of March with an 0-4 Western trip, a brutal schedule of title contenders and two no-shows against lottery types....
GLORIOUS STADIUM DESERVES GLORY SEASON
A BALLCLUB, like a stadium, has to have a little bit of every thing to be successful. Seconds after Brett Gardner put down a perfect bunt single at the new...
PENA NABS THE FINAL SPOT ON BOMBERS' 25-MAN ROSTER
Joe Girardi has his full roster selected for tomorrow's opener at Camden Yards. After yesterday's 10-1 exhibition victory over the Cubs, the Yankees announced infielder Ramiro Pena will be added...
GOODEN CERTAIN HIS NEPHEW STILL HAS PLENTY LEFT
Dwight Gooden recognized the sound in Gary Sheffield's voice this week. Gooden had been there before. Cut by the Devil Rays in 2000, Gooden was ready to call it a...
OLIVER BOOED OFF CITI FIELD MOUND
New stadium, same old Oliver Perez. The Citi Field upgrade clearly hasn't solved all of the Mets' problems, including Perez's inconsistency. GARY NO MATCH FOR TRICKY RIGHTHOW THE METS SEASON...
'REVENGE' RALLIES AFTER ROUGH START
Talk about overcoming adversity. In the March 7 Gotham on the inner dirt at Aqueduct, West Coast invader I Want Revenge had everything his own way, dueling for the early...
RANGERS' PLAYOFF PICTURE TAKES HIT
BOSTON--The Rangers needed a big play in the third period and didn't get it. Again. The Rangers needed Henrik Lundqvist to come up with a pristine performance and didn't get...
BRODEUR SAVES DAY, ENDS DEVILS' ROAD LOSING STREAK
BUFFALO -- In the Devils' wild season of twists, turns and extremes, this chapter is their Rehab Weekend of Winning Again. "It's been a long two weeks around here," coach...
ESPN ACTUALLY GETS ONE RIGHT
EVERY once in a while, ESPN provides a wink and a clue as to what it would be like if its primary purpose was to pay attention to sports as...
ROOKIE JOENSUU ASSISTS IN ISLES' WIN
Richard Park and Radek Martinek picked up the first two Islander goals last night. But the same kid was in on both of them. The Islanders received an impressive performance...
AUGUSTA TWEAKS MAY MEAN LOWER SCORES
THE course alterations made to Augusta Na tional in preparation for the 2009 Masters tournament didn't receive the fanfare the changes did in 2002 and 2006. After all, the tweaking...
DON'T BET AGAINST RESURGENT TIGER
By the time he reached age 29, his legend swelling with each mind-boggling accomplishment, Tiger Woods already had won four Masters green jackets. But as the 2009 Masters gets underway...
WOODS NOT ONLY COMPELLING STORY
Though Tiger Woods, coming off a dramatic win in the Arnold Palmer Invitaional, always is the top story heading into the Masters, there will be some fabulous sub-plots that are...
MOTOWN ROCKS WITH OLD-SCHOOL FEEL
DETROIT -- Right away, you could tell something was dif ferent, because even 20 min utes before the evening's first jump ball there was . . . well, noise. Lots...
A RAY OF SUNSHINE FOR MSU
DETROIT -- It had been a brutally frustrating season for Michigan State's junior forward Raymar Morgan. Not the past tense. After suffering through a seemingly endless list of ailments and...
HUSKIES STOPPED BY HOME-STANDING MSU
DETROIT -- From Motown to Mackinaw City, from East Lansing to yes, even Ann Arbor, a state in terrible financial straits is finding solace and hope in a college basketball...
CROWD DIDN'T RATTLE UCONN
DETROIT --The biggest concern Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun had about playing Michigan State in last night's regional semifinal game before 72,456 fans in Ford Field, didn't beat the Huskies. At...
UNCLE SAM WANTS YOU!
Whether you call it a sport or just pure, unadulterated entertainment, there's no arguing about the fact that WrestleMania is the biggest night of professional wrestling's year. The four-hour, pay-per-view...
POEHLER 'PARKS' IT
President Barack Obama is regulating Wall Street, reforming health care and saving homeowners. Leslie Knope, the character played by Amy Poehler in NBC's new comedy, "Parks and Recreation," is just...
OUTSIDE THE RING WITH JOHN CENA
As the WWE's breakout star, John Cena eats, sleeps and breathes wrasslin'. In between his yearly 250 WWE shows though, Cena, 31, took time out from promoting his new action...
QUEEN FOR A DAY
Henry VIII never found Ms. Right. The marital test drives usually ended in divorce or decapitation. As the third season of "The Tudors" unfolds, the petulant, irascible king, played with...
FREE OF THE 'O.C.'
For a time, it seemed like every young, beautiful graduate of "The O.C." was going to be a star, with the exception of Ben McKenzie, who actually was the star....
DON'T MISS LIST
DRAMATHE UNUSUALS, Thursday, 8 p.m., ABC (Series Premiere) 'Unusual' cops - NYPD vice detective Casey Shraeger (Amber Tamblyn) is unexpectedly transferred to the homicide division in this new series filmed...
REEL GOOD
THE PARENT TRAP (1998), Sunday, 9 p.m., Disney Hallie and Annie (Lindsay Lohan and Lindsay Lohan) are identical twins who were separated at birth when their parents separated at the...
PRIMETIME
Funny, how some people are fully held accountable for the preposterous things they say, while others can feel secure knowing that there's nothing so absurd they can say that won't...
YANKEES SPARE NO EXPENSE ON PLAYERS, STADIUM
MAYBE it will feel this strange, this surreal on the inevitable day when they decide to move the President out of the old White House and into a new one,...
NEW YANKEE STADIUM MIXES CLASSIC TOUCHES, MODERN LUXURY
On your first journey to the new Yankee Stadium, make sure you don't stumble. It would be easy to lose your balance as you walk with head raised and jaw...
2009 YANKEES PREVIEW
They spent $423.5 million to erase the mistakes of 2008. CC Sabathia, A.J. Burnett and Mark Teixeira were brought in to make sure the Yankees return to the postseason. The...
PARK & 'PEN CORNERSTONES OF METS' RENEWAL
THE old tune is supposed to be mournful, something slightly more cheerful than a funeral dirge, a wistful gaze back at what used to be, specifically what used to be...
After Shea, Mets fans will feel as if they're in baseball heaven
Citi Field looks like a ballpark. Not a stadium -- a ballpark. Modeled after Ebbets Field, it looks as if it jumped out of a black-and-white newsreel. Shea Stadium was...
2009 METS PREVIEW
For someone with two epic September collapses on his watch, Omar Minaya sure is a confident guy. The Mets GM essentially brought back the same lineup that missed the playoffs...
JOEL SHERMAN'S INSIDE LOOK
How the Yankees' season might play out: 1. Hanley Ramirez homers to beat the Yankees on June 19 at Pro Player Stadium, and after the game, Alex Rodriguez says how...
JOEL SHERMAN'S CRYSTAL BALL
The Post's Joel Sherman takes a look at the names and teams that will be making news in 2009: AMERICAN LEAGUE CY YOUNG Jon Lester, Red Sox. He had a...
METS TO BE PRINCES OF CITI, KINGS OF LEAGUE
The Phillies had trouble scoring this spring, but expect them to pick it up once season starts. Jimmy Rollins has the ability to get better as year progresses. His goal...
BIG, BAD EAST WILL LEAVE YANKEES OUT IN THE COLD
IT FEELS right that the NCAA season ends and the American League schedule begins on the same day. That allows a natural transition of one campaign dominated by the Big...
VC 'n Yi 'n possible elimination
By FRED KERBERVince Carter hasn't really felt any left Achilles pain since it bothered him back when he was traded from Toronto.But it flared up on him Saturday in Chicago...