April 21, 2009
Live chat: 2 p.m. Wednesday
ST. LOUIS -- I will be holding another of my weekly, hour-long blog chats on the Mets tomorrow (Wednesday) at 2 p.m. EST. So be sure to check back then...
Pelfrey pitches pain-free
ST. LOUIS -- The Mets got some good news today: Mike Pelfrey looks firmly on track to return to their rotation Saturday. After having his turn last Sunday skipped due...
NADY WILL AVOID SURGERY, FOR NOW
Xavier Nady will try to rehab his elbow injury without surgery, giving the Yankees right fielder a chance to return this season. Nady has a partial ligament tear in his...
WANG TO PITCH EXTENDED-SPRING GAME
Struggling right-hander Chien-Ming Wang will pitch an extended spring training game in Florida on Thursday with Yankees officials watching. Wang's turn in the rotation will be skipped this weekend in...
GIANTS' OTHER RECEIVERS CONFIDENT
The veteran presence the Giants had at wide receiver is gone. Plaxico Burress was released and Amani Toomer, after 13 seasons with the team, was not offered another contract. So...
Game 13: Mets at Cardinals
ST. LOUIS -- Fresh off taking two of three from the Brewers at home, the Mets try to keep the positive vibes going here tonight when Oliver Perez takes on...
Ozzie swings at Swisher
After Nick Swisher called Joe Girardi the best manager he's ever played for, former Swisher manager Ozzie GUillen of the White Sox, predictably had something to say about it."He's got...
Last two eps of WCG Ultimate Gamer
Have you been following the WCG Ultimate Gamer series on the soon to be re-branded Syfy Channel? If you have, then you'll know that tonight is the penultimate episode. If...
Fallujah me? Fallujah YOU! The Game
Konami semi-recently announced that they're developing a game called "Six Days in Fallujah" for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC, due out in 2010.It's a third-person shooter that's based on...
Rabbids get standalone brand, whee!
How great is this? The plunger-wielding, psycho albino rabbids are getting their own standalone brand this Holiday season.Ubisoft will be releasing the comedy-adventure game, "Rabbids Go Home," which is being...
Credit DiBella For Saving Doc Signature
Boxing promoter Lou DiBella deserves credit for saving Doc's signatureBy GEORGE WILLISAs much as I appreciate the props WFAN's Mike Francesa threw my way during his radio show today for...
Sheep and aliens? What the Flock!??
"Flock!" for XBL/PSN/PC reminds me of "Destroy All Humans!"...except with less butt-probing. I'm guessing.The whole point of the game is to herd farm animals to a mothership/UFO through a variety...
Frat days are back: iPhone Beer Pong
So, like, I was watching "Greek" on ABC Family (shut up, it's really funny) last night, where the guys of Kappa Tau were playing beer pong. Today, I come across...
JUDGE RULES PIRATE IS AN ADULT
The sole survivor of a pirate attack on an American ship cried in a lower Manhattan courtroom today as a dispute erupted over whether or not he is a juvenile....
19 Again, Or My Introduction to Big-Time Journalism
I did my first reporting for The Post 40 years ago today with this front-page story about the historic student occupation at City College. I wrote about this massive demonstration...
Tuesday's leftovers
The Bears are not interested in signing ex-Giants receiver Plaxico Burress, according to the Chicago Sun Times."Isiah apologized and said he made a major mistake," Griseck said. "He said he's...
Report: Nady won't have surgery
SI.com reports Xavier Nady has a partially torn elbow ligament and will attempt to heal it through rest and rehabilitation, not season-ending surgery.The Web site says, "He will likely need...
Judge Says 'No' to Blago
It's a no-go for Blago's reality TV career. A federal judge denied ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich the opportunity to appear on NBC's upcoming "Survivor"-style reality show."It's way too soon....
AccuWeather says it's the wind
There have been a lot of opinions about the abundance of home runs at the new Yankee Stadium.A gusty west wind was exactly what the Yankees and Indians were dealing...
BANK STRESS TESTS TO TAKE HARSH TONE
WASHINGTON -- The government's "stress tests" of 19 large banks take a harsher view of loans than of other troubled assets, according to a Federal Reserve document obtained by the...
DA: NO ONE ELSE COULD HAVE KILLED S.I. FIREFIGHTER
A Staten Island mom accused of killing her fire marshal husband is guilty of the crime and "the evidence will show that there is no reasonable possibility that anyone else...
First Look: LC Joins 'Family'
Lauren Conrad is a genius - on "Family Guy.""The Hills" starlet plays a smarter version of herself on an upcoming episode of the animated series where she becomes the rebound...
Ye Olde Photoshoppe?
Or is Russell Crowe already slimmed down for the movie formerly known as "Nottingham''?
RAMSAY SNUB
GORDON Ramsay may start calling his restaurants "donkeys" soon. None of the bad-tempered, "Hell's Kitchen" chef's restaurants made it into The S. Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurants list, according to...
GEITHNER DEFENDS BANK RESCUE PLAN
WASHINGTON -- Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner defended the bank rescue program devised by the Obama administration Tuesday as the International Monetary Fund predicted U.S. financial institutions could lose $2.7 trillion...
$1M OF HELMSLEY'S MONEY GOES TO THE DOGS
Trustees of real estate baroness Leona Helmsley's estate say they're giving $136 million to charity -- with just $1 million going to the dogs. Helmsley's estate announced its first round...
Last night's Rangers debacle
As I walking into Penn Station yesterday around 4:30 p.m., there was already a group of 50 or so Rangers fans congregated out front chanting, "Let's Go Rangers!"The crowd could...
The bidding for Boldin
The Baltimore Sun reports the Ravens are willing to give up a first- or second-round pick and a player, but not a first- and third-round pick for Boldin.ESPN Insider speculates...
London Critics Hype 'Star Trek' With Five-Star Reviews
There's been so much talk about "X-Men Origins: Wolverine'' since a high-quality file was leaked on the web a couple of weeks ago that I almost forget J.J. Abrams' reboot...
PAULA: SIMON'S A 'BULLY'
"He's a masterful bully," "American Idol" judge Paula Abdul says of Simon Cowell. So much so, that on the first day she went to work on the series, she says...
WIFE GETS LIFE FOR HUBBY'S SLAY
A Queens woman and her distant cousin were sentenced today to life in prison without parole for gunning down her estranged husband. Mazoltuv Borukhova and her cousin Mikhail Mallayev were...
'CSI' STAR CONFIRMS MOVIE
William Petersen says there will definitely be a "CSI" movie, ending months of rumors about the show's big-screen fate. "Yes, there will be a movie," Petersen told Britain's Radio Times.MORE:...
ANGRY SHAREHOLDERS CONFRONT CITI BOARD
The anger was evident at Citigroup Inc.'s annual meeting, where shareholders took turns at the microphone to object to how the bank has been operating. The meeting is usually a...
Pulse Sale: Kara Janx
Kara Janx242 W. 36th St., between Seventh and Eighth avenues; 212-594-4749Sale: April 22-23. Wed.-Thurs., 11 a.m.-6:30 p.m.Dresses up to 80 percent off.
L.I. FAMILY FOUND DEAD IN MD. HOTEL
TOWSON, Md. -- It seemed like a typical spring weekend: A Baltimore college sophomore ate breakfast with her parents and sister, who'd made the trip from their home in New...
Not too early to worry about Marlins, Jays
By JUSTIN TERRANOVALast year the knee-jerk reaction was to dismiss the quick-starting Rays and wait for them to fade away and make way for the Yankees-Red Sox pennant race.We're still...
GM, CHRYSLER TO GET $5.5B MORE
DETROIT -- General Motors Corp. could get as much as $5 billion more in federal loans, while Chrysler LLC could get $500 million as they race against government-imposed deadlines to...
Tuck on Edwards, Boldin, Ocho Cinco
By PAUL SCHWARTZWith the release of Plaxico Burress, Giants defensive end Justin Tuck admits there is a "void'' left behind. The team might try to fill that void in the...
IRAN MAY COMMUTE U.S. JOURNALIST'S SENTENCE
TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran may reconsider an eight-year jail term for an American journalist during her appeal, the judiciary spokesman said Tuesday in an indication her sentence will be commuted....
STUDY: OBESE CONTRIBUTE TO GLOBAL WARMING
The rising number of fat people is being blamed for global warming. Scientists warned that the increase in big-eaters means more food production -- a major cause of CO2 gas...
Coverage in The Post
ST. LOUIS -- The middling Mets return from their off day to open a three-game set here tonight with the Cardinals. That gives Jerry Manuel another shot to do the...
Jets Draft Preview: LBs
By BRIAN COSTELLOIn the days leading up to the NFL Draft on Saturday, we will examine the draft position-by-position through the eyes of the Jets. Today we take a look...
EVERYONE KNOWS IT'S WINDY
THERE'S no crying in baseball, especially when it comes to wind-aided home runs. The Yankees, their fans, their pitchers and everybody else connected with the club had better accept as...
Serie A: Inzaghi's Net Gains
After scoring his 300th career goal last month, AC Milan's Filippo "Super Pippo" Inzaghi has set his sights on Roberto Baggio's tally of 318. The 35-year-old netted a hat trick...
IRAN PREZ DROPPED HOLOCAUST DENIAL FROM SPEECH
GENEVA -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dropped language describing the Holocaust as "ambiguous and dubious" from a speech attacking Israel at a United Nations racism conference, the U.N. said Tuesday....
SCIENTISTS FIND EARTH-SIZED PLANET
HATFIELD, England -- Scientists have discovered a planet outside our solar system that is close to Earth in size -- far different from the behemoths previously detected, researchers said Tuesday....
IMF: LOSSES FROM GLOBAL CREDIT CRISIS MOUNTING
WASHINGTON -- The International Monetary Fund said Tuesday U.S. financial institutions could suffer $2.7 trillion in losses from the global credit crisis, part of a worldwide total expected to top...
Danilo, Cabezas, Coach K
By MARC BERMANOur Dan Martin was at the Garden last night for the Rangers playoff game and bumped into Danilo Gallinari.In his first remarks since surgery, Danilo said, "I'm feeling...
WIND WALL
Spent part of yesterday standing in the howling wind on the concourse at the new Yankee Stadium. The Yankees said their wind tests didn't show anything unusual.Wonder if they stood...
ACCUSED CRAIGSLIST KILLER PLEADS NOT GUILTY
The Boston medical student charged with killing a Manhattan woman he met on Craigslist pleaded not guilty this afternoon and was held without bail. Philip Markoff, 22, said nothing during...
Hatton: I'll Beat Pacquiao
Ricky Hatton is confident he'll beat Manny Pacquiao...James Kirkland is arrested and other boxing notes.By GEORGE WILLISRicky Hatton held a media conference call today to hype is May 2 junior...
3 UP: A-ROD, TATIS AND JONES
1. The way I hear it is that Alex Rodriguez could essentially DH right now if that is what the Yankees wanted him to do. But, obviously, they want him...
FIRST LOOK: Saam at Bazaar
Billowing liquid nitrogen caipirinhas. Exploding olive bonbons. Floating cotton candy foie gras. Step right up to The Bazaar - L.A.'s most au courant culinary carnival, the main attraction at the...
Zac and Linklater's 'Orson' Still Without U.S. Distribution
Zac Efron is being called (in The Hollywood Reporter) a new Tom Cruise on the basis of the $24 million opening of "17 Again,'' a New Line comedy that was...
WHAT'S BEST FOR KIDS
** We at the United Federation of Teachers are proud of our advocacy on behalf of children and the educators who teach them, and we won't apologize for lobbying for...
O'S SPANS SPARKING DOT QUALM
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is preparing to unveil its cybersecurity strategy soon, and the online community is on alert that new policies could give the government an unprecedented role...
SEX SHOCK THE BRIDE AND GLOOM
A Queens woman charges that a wedding guest from hell turned her dream nuptials into a sordid affair she can never forget by screaming, tossing a drink at another guest...
ALEX CRASHES RANGERS PRACTICE, GETS BOOT
When the Rangers took the ice yesterday for their morning skate at the Garden, there was one player alone on the other bench: Alex Ovechkin. The Capitals' star sat and...
LOONEY TUNES
THE xylophone-playing skunk doesn't stink. He, in fact, delights. Since last fall, the Xylopholks, a guerilla ragtime band that also features a pink gorilla on bass, have been popping up...
EMO FILLIPS
IT'S not quite "Beatles or Stones?" but today's release of new Pet Shop Boys and Depeche Mode records, "Yes" and "Sounds of the Universe," respectively, rekindles old musical rivalries between...
Melting pot of rock
They certainly are a motley crew. On bass, ladies and gentlemen, Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne; James Iha from Smashing Pumpkins and Perfect Circle plays guitar; Cheap Trick's Bun...
HOME SHOPPING NETWORK
WHEN it comes to staying financially afloat, opportunity sometimes knocks. Literally. Remember Avon ladies going door to door selling eyeliner and lipstick? Well, they're back. Only nowadays, direct selling doesn't...
CITY LINK IN STATE $CANDAL
Indicted political consultant Hank Morris pocketed a placement fee on an $85 million deal between the city's largest employee pension fund and an investment firm headed by an appointee of...
B'KLYN MAN IN SLAY-SUICIDE
A man shot and killed his girlfriend in her Queens home yesterday and then turned the gun on himself, police said. The murder-suicide occurred at 8:10 p.m. shortly after Robert...
SAD, $WEET MUSIC
BUFFALO, NY -- Jazz musician Chuck Mangione will hold a performance fund-raiser next month for the families of victims of Flight 3407, including two members of his band. Coleman Mellett...
GLOBAL LIBRARY
PARIS -- A globe-spanning digital library seeking to display and explain the relics of all human cultures will be officially launched online today at the Paris headquarters of UNESCO. The...
TRAGIC 10TH FOR COLUMBINE
DENVER -- With words of hope and healing, Coloradans yesterday marked the 10th anniversary of the Columbine HS shootings that left 12 students and a teacher dead. Flags flew at...
RUDY HAILS DEM 'RIVAL'
ALBANY -- Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani yesterday praised the man he could face at the polls next year, saying Attorney General Andrew Cuomo would be a "very formidable" candidate in...
HAWKING IS SERIOUSLY ILL
LONDON -- Stephen Hawking, the British mathematician and physicist famed for his work on black holes, was rushed to a hospital yesterday and was seriously ill, Cambridge University said. Hawking,...
NEWT RIPS O-HUGO GREET
WASHINGTON -- Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich charged yesterday that President Obama's cordial greeting of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez sends a poor message to enemies of America. On NBC's "Today" show...
RENT TAKES HALF OF INCOME
More than a quarter of New Yorkers are spending half their money on rent, Rep. Anthony Weiner said yesterday. He said data shows there are now more than 572,000 people...
SINGER DENTAL-DAMNED
A celebrated salsa singer claims a dental surgeon took a bite out of his career when he pulled two of his teeth. Ramon "Rey" Reyes said the botched surgery left...
COP GUILTY OF DRUNKEN ATTACK
A drunken NYPD cop who attacked state troopers was convicted of assault yesterday. * Gilberto Vazquez, 46, was arrested after he rear-ended another vehicle on the Northern State Parkway on...
FREDDY SEZ: HEY!
Freddy "Sez" Schuman, the one-eyed, cookware-clanking octogenarian who's been an unofficial pinstripe mascot for 22 seasons, was forced to panhandle for tickets at the new Yankee Stadium over the weekend....
FOUR CORNERS MAP GAFFE
SALT LAKE CITY -- Tourists who think they're putting a hand or foot in each of four states at the Four Corners are apparently missing the mark -- by about...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
A thug landed in the slammer after whaling on a Bedford-Stuyvesant grocery worker -- with a marble bathroom sink, authorities said. David Stokes, 47, confronted the victim at the store...
NEW GIG FOR SILVER AIDE
A national advocacy group that backs extending mayoral control of New York City schools has hired a former top aide to powerful Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver as its chief state...
ALL HALAL BREAKS LOOSE IN FOOD-CART FEUD
A food fight in the Financial District turned ugly when a street vendor mowed down a pregnant rival with his cart, police sources said yesterday. A heated argument broke out...
COPS WOUND BX. 'GUNMAN'
Cops shot and wounded a Bronx man early yesterday morning after he pointed a gun at his girlfriend and her family and threatened to shoot them, authorities said. Responding to...
NO BUTTS ABOUT IT: PRICIEST SEATS COME UP EMPTY
Maybe the reason the best tickets at the new Yankee Stadium are called "Legends" seats is that fans willing to fork over $2,625 a game are mostly mythical. Dozens of...
OFFICIALS RALLY AROUND PRINCIPAL
Education Department officials are backing a Queens middle-school principal despite a monthlong protest against him by parents and teachers. Officials laud John Murphy's turnaround of MS 8, but some teachers...
HAMPTONS' HOMELESS GROWING
The number of homeless day laborers who sleep in hidden areas around tony Southampton Village may swell in the coming year, worried officials say. "My fear is that the numbers...
OH, YEAH, THIS'LL REALLY HELP: BAM ORDERS CABINET TO CUT SPENDING BY WHOPPING . . .
President Obama yesterday told his Cabinet secretaries to trim their spending by $100 million -- the equivalent of a family earning $50,000 a year slashing costs by all of $1.35....
'SOUP NAZI' HAS LOG ROLE
The actor whose "Soup Nazi" portrayal made him a hero to "Seinfeld" fans has a new gig: selling log cabins on a Pittsburgh-area company's Web site, yelling, "No pine for...
PLAYTIME 101: SAVE SANDBOX
There's trouble in the playground. Protests from parents have New York University officials rethinking plans to close two popular sandboxes in a private playground in Washington Square Village. Parents said...
OBAMA OFFERS A 'LIFT' TO THE CIA
WASHINGTON -- Days after releasing top-secret memos that detailed the CIA's use of simulated drowning while interrogating terror suspects, President Barack Obama went to the spy agency's Virginia headquarters yesterday...
POL PUT TENURE REFORM OUT OF 'COMMISSION'
An effort to reform the lax state teacher-tenure rules that allow bad-apple educators to stay on the job for years was effectively killed by a low-key politician from Queens. Assemblywoman...
KING: CUBA MUST HAND OVER THUGS
WASHINGTON -- Amid signs of a potential thaw in US-Cuba relations, Rep. Peter King wants to force the extradition of criminals who have been hiding out in Havana with the...
WOODY FOE TAKES HIT AT MISSUS
American Apparel chief Dov Charney claims he'd be "completely justified" dragging Woody Allen's wife into their court battle, because she badmouthed his company. Soon-Yi Previn told her filmmaker hubby that...
MIKE A VOLUNTEER-JERKER
He wants your vote, he wants your taxes and now he wants you to volunteer. Once again hitching his administration to President Obama, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday announced plans to help...
MADOFF WIFE BIDS TO KEEP MILLIONS
Ruth Madoff is fixing to fight for her fortune. The wife of Ponzi king Bernard Madoff continues to claim she owns "certain assets free and clear of any wrongdoing" by...
EX-GIANT PUNTS AT FRAUD TRIAL
A financial adviser who once played for the New York Giants threw his game plan out the window and pleaded guilty to fraud charges yesterday. Clyde "Peter" Hall, who played...
'NEIGH' TO MADGE TALE
There were no photographers anywhere in sight when Madonna fell off a horse, Hamptons cops said yesterday, contradicting Madge's version of events, in which she blamed paparazzi. Madonna's camp had...
'HUDSON MIRACLE' SURVIVOR: BIRD $#+!
A survivor of the jet that splash-landed in the Hudson River after flying into a flock of geese says a government proposal to keep bird-strike data hush-hush doesn't fly. "The...
HIKE 1 FARE, SAVE ANOTHER: SMITH
Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith says he knows how to save subway and bus riders from drastic fare hikes -- add $1 to each city taxi ride and split the...
POLO PONIES
WELLINGTON, Fla. -- Ladies in their spring dresses and men in casual linen suits sipped champagne and nibbled hors d'oeuvres as they waited for the US Open polo match. What...
MOMS BRAWL AS COPS PROBE 'KID SALE'
The family problems of adorable "Slumdog Millionaire" star Rubina Ali went from bad to worse yesterday, as her father was hauled in to a Mumbai police station on allegations he...
ELIOT BEATS DAVE: POLL
ALBANY -- New Yorkers would rather have disgraced ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer as the state's chief executive than Gov. Paterson, who took office after Spitzer resigned in a prostitution scandal last...
FOWL PLAY IN QNS. BLACKOUT
Con Ed yesterday went to the birds -- or, more precisely, to the parrots. More than 1,500 Con Ed customers in Beechhurst, Queens, lost power for about 45 minutes because...
'DA VINCI' AUTHOR'S NEXT OPUS DAY TO BE IN SEPT.
At last, a new Dan Brown novel is coming. Six years after the release of his mega-selling "The Da Vinci Code," the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group announced yesterday that Brown's...
VILE A'JAD TALKS & THE WEST WALKS
GENEVA -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday accused the West of using the Holocaust as a "pretext" for aggression against Palestinians -- prompting every European Union member to storm out...
PARKING PLUNGE
Talk about a wild ride! A Mercedes SUV plunged three stories from a Greenwich Village garage yesterday afternoon, landing on a rooftop. Miraculously, the hapless attendant who piloted the luxury...
JOINT SESSION: NY POLS BID FOR MED MARIJUANA
ALBANY -- They couldn't have picked a more doobie-ous day. State lawmakers chose yesterday -- "4/20," the unofficial holiday of pot smokers -- to announce their support of a new...
IT'S JOLLY ROGER!
If his timbers are shivering, he's sure not showing it. The lone surviving Somali pirate of the four who hijacked the Maersk Alabama arrived in New York from Africa yesterday,...
PREPPY BUST IN CRAIGSLIST SLAY
The man suspected as the "Craigslist killer" of a Manhattan masseuse was identified last night as a preppy premed student who grew up in a prominent upstate family. Phil Markoff,...
LEONA HOME ONLY $75M
The palace of the Queen of Mean is on sale -- at 40 percent off. The late Leona Helmsley's mansion in Greenwich, Conn., is now on sale at the discount...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A young mom's life has forever changed -- because she's suddenly become allergic to water. Michaela Dutton, 21, of Birmingham, England, drinks only diet soda and can shower for just...
CHURCH IS OWED BETTER
ST. LOUIS -- Consider this a defense of Ryan Church. You wouldn't think the Mets' talented right fielder would need much defending, what with Church ranking among the NL leaders...
METS SIGN WILY MO PENA
ST. LOUIS -- The Mets signed veteran outfielder Wily Mo Pena to a minor-league deal yesterday and assigned him to extended spring training. Pena, 27, is to report to Triple-A...
HURRICANES SLUMPING AT WRONG TIME
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Things are starting to look a bit bleak for the Hurricanes. After winning nine in a row late in the regular season, Carolina has dropped four of...
HONDO BACK WITH PODS
The D'backs rattled Marquis last night to make losers of the stone-cold awful Rockies and Hondo, whose for merly impressive profits plunged to 215 monges. Tonight, he'll go with his...
SPORTS SHORTS
MARATHON: Americans third Kenya's Salina Kosgei outkicked American Kara Goucher and defending champion Dire Tune in the last mile of the Boston Marathon, going back and forth with Tune in...
PARISE CATCHES EYE OF HURRICANES
RALEIGH, N.C. -- With points on five of the Devils' eight goals in this playoff series, Zach Parise is Supersizing the Superstar he became this season. The Devils are in...
GIANTS FACE WEIGHTY DECISION WITH NICKS
As Hakeem Nicks was gaining weight at an alarming rate, the Giants were thinking this: Keep eating so you drop all the way to us. No, the Giants don't like...
KNICKS EYEING SPANISH POINT GUARD CABEZAS
A report yesterday that free-agent-to-be Spanish point guard Carlos Cabezas has a standing offer from the Knicks is false, according to a source who spoke to the player yesterday. However,...
JETS TO MOVE CAMP UPSTATE
The Jets are moving to the sticks. The team announced yesterday it will hold its three-week training camp four hours from New York City at SUNY Cortland. The move is...
BAFFERT LEADS 6 INTO HALL
Trainer Bob Baffert and his champion filly Silverbulletday will enter the National Museum of Racing's Hall of Fame together during induction ceremonies on Aug. 14 in Saratoga Springs. But Team...
STRUGGLING MATSUI'S LEFT KNEE 'A CONCERN'
Two weeks into the season, Hideki Matsui's surgically repaired left knee already has needed to be drained. According to GM Brian Cashman, Matsui had fluid taken out of the hinge...
JETS MAY ROLL DICE ON PETTIGREW
Brandon Pettigrew knew the question was coming. Each team he met with at February's NFL Combine started with the same question -- the character question. No one could question Pettigrew's...
BRONX VISIT HAS GIAMBI PUMPED UP
Jason Giambi once made hitting home runs seem simple, just as the Yankees used to make winning championships look easy. But, despite Giambi's fond feelings toward New York and the...
EVERYONE KNOWS IT'S WINDY
THERE'S no crying in baseball, especially when it comes to wind-aided home runs. The Yankees, their fans, their pitchers and everybody else connected with the club had better accept as...
YANKEES' GOAL: GET WANG RIGHT AGAIN
Even though the stoic Chien-Ming Wang isn't blaming an injury for his brutal start, the Yankees aren't ruling out a health problem contributing to the right-hander being hit like Chuck...
LEBRON LEADS CAVS COACH TO ACCOLADES
INITIALLY, I grappled with Mike Brown -- endowed with the planet's hottest selling/performing platinum player, LeBron James -- being voted NBA Coach of the Year. Upon deliberation I realize the...
DANILO 'BACK' AT MSG
Danilo Gallinari made an appearance at the Garden last night, and said his recovery from back surgery earlier this month is going well so far. "I'm feeling much better now,"...
POST COLUMN GETS METS TO DO WRITE THING ON DOC
ST. LOUIS -- The Mets buckled under to a heavy fan outcry yesterday and decided to preserve Dwight Gooden's Citi Field autograph after all. After insisting for the better part...
DRURY MAY MISS GAME 4
The Rangers managed to win Game 1 of their series against the Capitals without Chris Drury, and they won Game 2 with their captain debilitated by an injured right hand...
RANGERS FLATTEN OUT IN GAME 3
If Game 3 appeared to tilt on last night's single first-period shift on which Ryan Callahan hit the post on a gimme rebound from point-blank range before the Caps raced...
PEDROIA HELPS RED SOX SWEEP O'S
Dustin Pedroia went 4-for-6 with three run-scoring singles and David Ortiz had a two-run triple to lead the Red Sox to a 12-1 win over the Orioles, completing a four-game...
OVECHKIN MAKES PRESENCE KNOWN
ALEXANDER Ovechkin still doesn't have a goal, and the Rangers still lead the series. Statistics and damn lies to anyone who watched Game 3 and who therefore could not have...
BACK 'HOME'
MOTLEY Crue lead singer Vince Neil is used to women wanting to come backstage to meet him -- but usually they're offering more than a handshake and a barely audible...
D'OH! DON'T DO HOMER THIS WAY
PITY the kids of today. When I was growing up, we had the wonderful Classics Illustrated comic books to introduce us to the masterpieces of world literature. Now all they've...
PROFITING FROM PARENTHOOD
'WE can't just sell the kids because we're unhappy," Stacey blurts out when her husband, Brian, suggests a way to better not only their marriage, but their entire life. "Why...
OPRAH CANCELS SCHOOL SHOW
OPRAH Winfrey abruptly yanked yesterday's planned "Oprah" show about the 10th anniversary of the Columbine High School shootings. "I decided to pull the Columbine show today," Winfrey wrote on her...
PULITZERS FIX ON 'RUINED'
BROOKLYN'S Lynn Nottage, who penned a column in The Post this month describing a trip to Africa that led her to write "Ruined," yesterday won the Pulitzer Prize for drama...
KARDASHIAN SISTERS TO GET THEIR OWN SHOW
E! is spinning off "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" into a show starring sisters Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian. The series, tentatively titled "Kourtney and Khloe in Miami," will feature the...
BLONDE FAITH
ON TV, crime pays big time -- unless you're talking about "Without a Trace" and "Cold Case." Both long-running cop dramas are currently "on the bubble," the precarious position of...
WHAT YOU'LL LIKELY SEE INSTEAD
'Miami Trauma"-- Jeremy Northam ("The Tudors") in a hospital drama about a team of trauma surgeons. "The Good Wife" -- Legal drama from "Numb3rs" producers about a politician's wife (Julianna...
WE ARE JUST SO OVER
WHAT if everyone disap peared? OK, if that included my upstairs neighbors, it wouldn't be a total loss. But what if even they went the way of all flesh? History's...
SIX SIGNS YOU'VE FOUND TRUE LOVE
THEY say all you need is love -- and having practiced psychiatry for 16 years, I can say it's at the center of the biggest question people struggle with: Have...
BAM'S LATIN LOVERS
MY president went to Trin idad and Tobago, and all I got was this lousy Che Guevara T-shirt. At a Caribbean resort, Obama grinned through a semi-erotic encounter with Venezuelan...
ON 'RACISM' PARLEY, O GETS ONE RIGHT
THE Obama administra tion's decision not to at tend this week's "Durban II" conference on racism in Geneva means that boycotting outrageous United Nations parleys is now officially bipartisan US...
A SHEPHERD OF HOPE FOR PRO-LIFE NYERS
*** Archbishop Timothy Dolan is heaven-sent and ready to work for the good of his new flock ("New Leader Joins War on NY Gay Nups," April 16). As a Catholic...
'TORTURE' IN CONTEXT
THE debate over the just-released Jus tice Department memorandums on interrogation techniques ended as soon as they were dubbed the "torture memos." Forevermore, they will be remembered as the legal...
I'M NOT A SWINDLER, STANFORD SAYS
R. Allen Stanford, the Texas billionaire accused of masterminding an $8 billion Ponzi scheme, said "I'm not a damn swindler" in an interview in Houston. Stanford was sued by the...
BUSINESS BRIEFS
Bad debt Capital One may get the ratings on $3.1 billion of lower-rated debt backed by credit-card payments cut by Moody's. The gross char ge-off rate for card bal ances...
PEAK DRIVING SEASON FALLS VICTIM TO RECESSION
THERE will be no summer driving season this year. Of course, there will be summer. And people will still get into their cars to go places. But in the traditional...
ORACLE SWALLOWS SUN IN $7.4B GULP
Oracle Corp. agreed to buy Sun Microsystems for about $7.4 billion in cash, swooping in after the server maker's talks to be acquired by International Business Machines failed. Oracle will...
BOFA'S LEWIS IN THE EYE OF SHAREHOLDERS' STORM
Bank of America boss Ken Lewis is digging himself a deeper hole at his troubled bank, including setting aside an extra $6.4 billion just to cover future bad loans. Shares...
TARP WATCHDOG DEMANDS PUBLIC $AFEGUARDS
Congress' TARP cop will issue a report today saying taxpayers are increasingly exposed to losses and the government is more vulnerable to fraud under the administration's initiatives which created a...
ACTOR TAKES A FLIER
In a role that could be tougher than proving his innocence in the film "The Fugitive," actor and avid pilot Harrison Ford is trying to convince a fed-up public that...
MARTS SHRUG OFF BANKS RECOVERY
Bad loans and even weaker bank earnings dragged stocks farther away from their six-week winning streak and toward a possible summer slump. Bank of America's shaky earnings report yesterday rattled...
ONE DIVA TOO MANY
It's splitsville for Martha Stewart and her company's co-CEO Wenda Harris Millard, The Post has learned. Multiple sources familiar with the matter said that Millard plans to leave Martha Stewart...
CUSHMAN ZEROES IN ON 1 WTC
THERE are lies, damn lies and statistics. And then, there are numbers games that go even beyond parsing present-day realities, but instead presume to predict the future based on a...
TWO JUDGES DUEL OVER MADOFF'S ASSETS
Competing orders from two federal judges on recovering Bernard Madoff's assets for victims could lead to costly court battles over who's in charge, the convicted money manager's lawyer says. US...
GM DEBT RUNS IN NEUTRAL
As General Motors scrambles to figure out how to pay down $1.5 billion in debt due June 1 -- the same day Uncle Sam is demanding the hobbled automaker present...
PETE KING'S WISE WORDS
The Council on American-Islamic Rela tions (CAIR) has slammed Rep. Peter King for his alleged "bigoted" remarks, but the Long Island Republican is standing his ground. Good for him --...
OBAMA'S ROUNDING ERROR
Did President Obama leave off a few zeroes when he ordered federal agencies to trim $100 million from their budgets? No, that's not a typo: Obama actually asked for spending...
BETSY GOTBAUM'S BOGUS 'TWEAKS'
Here's a stunningly bad idea for govern ing city schools: Make them account able to no one. That, essentially, is what Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum is pushing for this week...
H'WOOD AGENCIES COMBINE TALENTS
Call it the ultimate Hollywood marriage. Two of Tinseltown's most powerful talent agencies -- Endeavor and William Morris Agency -- are close to inking a merger that will create a...
DESTINATION: COSTA RICA
It's pretty darn astonishing, really - it's such a teeny country (I mean, not even the size of West Virginia), and yet crammed with a wide and savory plethora of...
50 STATES: Minnesota
WHEN telling someone to meet you at the upstairs lounge at Minneapolis' Chambers Hotel for a drink, make sure you know you can get away with using the bar's actual...
10 SIGHTS YOU CANNOT MISS
1) Thar She Blows! Yep, you can certainly spot migrating whales in season off the central Pacific coast, but the spouters I'm referring to here are Costa Rica's five active...
WHERE TO STAY NOW
I gotta tell you, it's hard to narrow down the top ten -- in all the different regions and up and down the price-point ladder -- in a country so...
10 GREAT MEALS
There's a good reason you don't see any Costa Rican restaurants outside of Costa Rica: the grub's just nothing too special -- pretty much just standard Latin rice-'n'-beans fare. Having...
STRATEGIES
It's funny, Costa Rica these days is multifaceted -- both developed and rustic-to-primitive, familiar and exotic. And so a few pointers are in order:1) Getting There There are two international...
BEST OF THE WEB
Costa Rica may be one of the more Internet-covered destinations I've ever come across. Most of these sites are generated by the voluminous in-country expat community, including detailed sites for...
NEWS + NOTES
TALE OF THE TAPE AVON, Ohio chooses to praise the non-felonious side of duct tape, so much so it's arranging a festival in honor of the adhesive's adhesive for the...
HOT DEALS!
MADRID $130 a night, midweek, at the Hotel Opera, near the Royal Opera Hall and Royal Palace. Good through June 30, rates jump to $157 on weekends, sink to $112...
HOW GREEN IS YOUR HOTEL?
HOTELS are hopping on board the eco express like never before. Not only does it save money, along with the earth, it's great marketing. Not all greening programs are created...
STAR TREK:WIVES TALES
What's your most memorable vacation? "Actually, when I was a kid, I remember spending summers in Wyoming, which was amazing. And I think that anytime you have the opportunity to...
Serie A: Juve Fans Banned
Juventus will have to play their next home Serie A game behind closed doors after fans racially abused Inter Milan striker Mario Balotelli in Saturday's 1-1 draw, league officials said...
Reality TV Tryouts: 'Green' house
How to get your 15 seconds of fame."HGTV Green Home 2009"Not a reality show, but you can get your mug on TV and win a prize: An eco-friendly home, worth...
WHITE-WASH: CAPS GET BACK IN SERIES WITH 4-0 WIN
While Alex Ovechkin tried to figure out Henrik Lundqvist, the Washington Capitals found a way to beat the New York Rangers. Ovechkin went a third game without a goal, but...
Time for an EPL Salary Cap?
With the big four immersed in unsustainable debt and clubs below them putting themselves in hock to try and compete, the argument for fiscal responsibility and sustainability is a cogent...
CITY PENSION SCANDAL WIDENS
Indicted political consultant Hank Morris pocketed a placement fee on an $85 million deal between the city's largest employee pension fund and an investment firm headed by an appointee of...