May 2, 2009
50-1 SHOT WINS KENTUCKY DERBY
Mine That Bird dug up a miracle, stunning the field to win the Kentucky Derby with a dynamic stretch run through the mud Saturday at Churchill Downs. The 3-year-old gelding...
Takahashi joins select few
PHILADELPHIA -- Recently promoted Mets reliever Ken Takahashi finally made his U.S. major-league debut today, taking over for the struggling Oliver Perez with one out in the third inning. Takahashi,...
PALMER OUTPITCHES SABATHIA
Matt Palmer outpitched CC Sabathia for his second major league win, and the Los Angeles Angels broke open a tight game in the late innings to beat the Yankees 8-4...
Serie A: Inter Get Closer to Title
Zlatan Ibrahimovic clashed with his own fans after putting Inter Milan on the verge of clinching the Serie A title with a 2-0 home win over Lazio on Saturday.The champions...
Manuel's 'icing' draws fine
PHILADELPHIA -- Major League Baseball fined Jerry Manuel an undisclosed amount today for violating baseball's "pace of game" rules in the ninth inning of Wednesday's 4-3 loss to the Marlins...
NY FLU TESTS FIND NEW TYPE OF VICTIM
-- Health officials have confirmed New York City's first case of swine flu involving a patient who hadn't been to Mexico lately and isn't linked to a school that was...
NY SWINE FLU SPREADS
New York City health officials say they have found at least one person with swine flu who hadn't been to Mexico lately and isn't linked to a school that was...
NATO THWARTS HIJACK OFF SOMALIA, SEIZES DYNAMITE
Special forces on a Portuguese warship seized explosives from suspected Somali pirates after thwarting an attack on an oil tanker, but later freed the 19 men. Hours later and hundreds...
Delgado sitting out again
PHILADELPHIA -- Carlos Delgado will miss his fifth consecutive game today after testing his ailing right hip in batting practice. The Mets are leaning against putting the veteran first baseman...
CHILDHOOD'S END
Thirty years ago this month, six-year-old Etan Patz ran down the three flights from his SoHo loft, kissed his mother goodbye, dashed out his front door to head west on...
Bundesliga: Wolfsburg Win Big
Edin Dzeko netted a hat trick to lead Wolfsburg past Hoffenheim, 4-0, on Saturday and stretch their lead in the Bundesliga to three points with four games to play.The Bosnian...
EPL: United Go Up Six
Goals from Ryan Giggs and Park Ji-sung gave Manchester United a 2-0 win at Middlesbrough on Saturday to extend their lead in the Premier League standings to six points with...
WHY SOUTER MATTERS
Following Justice David Souter's retirement announcement, pundits of all stripes came to a common conclusion: it just doesn't matter. Given Souter's reputation for voting with the liberal block on the...
Game 2 Phils-Mets
5:45 No more Oliver Perez. Mets should send him down, if he doesn't agree, release him. The worst pitcher money can buy.Phillies should be up by five runs but Mets...
DEMLUSIONS OF GRANDEUR
Congratulations, Democrats. You've got the pilot, the co-pilot, a majority of the passengers and, with Arlen Specter, 60% of the stewardesses on Flight 2009-2010. Don't fly it like Air Force...
FAVORITE OUT OF DERBY
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Wood Memorial winner I Want Revenge, the 3-1 morning-line favorite for today's Kentucky Derby but third choice at 6-1 in the advance betting, was scratched early this...
'09 Indie Scoreboard: One Hit, Many Misses
Pamela McClintock has an interesting (if somewhat misleading) piece in Weekly Variety about the sorry state of the specialty film market, which is doing even worse with 2009 releases than...
Game 23: Mets at Phillies
PHILADELPHIA -- Gary Sheffield is in the lineup in right field and batting cleanup today as the Mets put Oliver Perez under the microscope in his nationally televised start here...
Coverage in The Post
PHILADELPHIA -- At least for one night, Omar Minaya's challenge to the Mets' manhood (the one he made before he awkwardly retracted it) seemed to work Friday night as Jerry...
Box Office: $86.6M Weekend Predicted for 'Wolverine' After $34.75M Opening Day
Despite a whopping estimated $34.75 opening day -- based on early figures and including $5M from midnight shows -- box office forecaster Steve Mason at Big Hollywood has lowered his...
Tribeca: Mamma Nia! IFC Upstages Tonight's Vardalos Premiere
"My Life in Ruins,'' which was not written or directed by Vardalos, opens in wide release from Searchlight on June 5. On July 1, IFC will try to piggyback on...
BOSTON GLOBE GETS MORE TIME
The New York Times Co. overnight gave the unions at the Boston Globe a bit more breathing room to negotiate $20 million in concessions, extending the deadline until midnight tomorrow....
PUTTING RITZY NABE ON 'EDGE'
MALIBU, Calif. -- A few years ago, U2 guitarist The Edge went for a hike, and there in the golden hills overlooking Malibu's cerulean waters, he finally found what he...
BODYBUILDER DRUG PULLED
WASHINGTON -- Government health officials warned dieters and body builders yesterday to immediately stop using Hydroxycut, a widely sold supplement linked to cases of serious liver damage and at least...
DUTCH RAMPAGE NUT A JOBLESS LONER
The deranged Dutchman who tried to kill Holland's Queen Beatrix and the royal family with his car was a polite loner who snapped after losing his job and home, police...
GYM GALS GROWL
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia -- "Let her get fat!" is the slogan women in Saudi Arabia are using to challenge a clampdown on female-only gyms. Unhappy at the growing number of...
EYE ON '7' HEAVEN
God save the MTA! Transit chiefs and Archbishop Timothy Dolan asked the great train operator in the sky yesterday to protect the sandhogs digging a new 7-line subway-tunnel extension and...
NEIGHBORS POKING AT PET PIG
Swine flu hysteria has made life hell for a pot-bellied pig name Romeo in Queens this week, as fear of the quick-spreading new illness have turned the once happy hog...
24 NEW CITIZENS REALLY FOUGHT TO BE AMERICANS
WASHINGTON -- President Obama yesterday told two dozen members of the military who were being sworn in as US citizens that they were "living examples" of America's promise. "Your service...
SUBPOENAS HIT PENSION BIZ
ALBANY -- State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo issued subpoenas to more than 100 investment firms and their agents yesterday as part of an expanding investigation of kickbacks and shakedowns involving...
YOUTH IS SWERVED
He may be the only race driver whose mother has to drive him to the track. A 15-year-old speed demon from Long Island is set to make history as the...
WOMAN KILLED CROSSING HIGHWAY
A woman was struck and killed by two cars last night trying to cross the Harlem River Drive, police said. The victim, 50, was walking across the southbound lanes of...
THUG BASHES BUS DRIVER
A city bus driver making early-morning rounds in Brooklyn was attacked by a thug who knocked out one of the man's teeth, officials said. The B35 driver was at Hegeman...
SCHOOL BIG BUSTED IN CAR RING
Cops taught a Brooklyn assistant principal a lesson when they arrested him for taking part in a luxury-auto theft ring, authorities said yesterday. Lisle Jackson, who earns more than $96,000...
GOV PIX A NEW FIGHT
ALBANY -- Gov. Paterson and Attorney General Andrew Cuomo were at odds yesterday over who authorized a $300,000 settlement with a photographer who claimed Paterson fired him because he is...
FRISKY BUSINESS CARDS PANNED
People who said they had been stopped and frisked by cops scoffed yesterday at the NYPD's new, preprinted apology cards -- now being handed out in three crime-ridden precincts. "They...
MADOFF'S SOME PIECE OF WORK
If you want to nail Bernie Madoff to the wall, there's a portrait of the fraudster up for auction. Manhattan artist Paul Richard, 47, was on the streets of Chelsea...
MOB MA: I OBJECT!
Ranting mob matriarch Victoria Gotti threw a killer of a tantrum at her son's court hearing yesterday, suddenly leaping to her feet and shouting, "Why don't you just hang him...
PANDEMIC A WEDDING CRA$HER
Two bridesmaids said they'd be a no-show. The ring bearers and flower girl, too. Then the father of the groom bowed out. Less than three weeks shy of their dream-destination...
BLIND MAN SHAFT DEATH
A blind man plummeted 25 feet to his death when he opened a broken elevator door in his Bronx apartment building and stepped into the shaft, authorities said yesterday. Sheldon...
SPIFFY HOME INVADERS TERRORIZE QNS. COUPLE
A pair of well-dressed bandits dragged a woman into her home yesterday, bound her and her husband and robbed them at gunpoint, cops said. Wearing dark blue suits, the goons...
BIG BENCH PRESS FOR A LADY JUSTICE
WASHINGTON -- President Obama vowed yesterday to replace retiring Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court with a jurist who had "empathy and understanding," and that person will likely be...
AN ITALIAN HOTEL OF 'HORROR'
A Queens family was held hostage at gunpoint in an Italian luxury resort by hotel workers who ran up more than $300,000 on their American Express Black Card, says a...
NY REMOTE 'CONTROL' A SILVER WOE
State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's downtown community board has called for eliminating mayoral control of the schools. The advisory vote by Community Board 1 puts Silver -- who negotiated the...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan Cops are seeking the public's help in finding a teenage girl and her infant son, who disappeared from their Harlem home. Jacklyn Bennett (above), 16 -- described as 5-foot-5...
SHOPPERS RUN FOR BORDER
Mayor Bloomberg's proposed sales-tax hike got a big thumbs down yesterday from New York shoppers who predicted the "terrible" idea will further cripple the city's economy and send consumers scurrying...
MIKE DUE ON FED GRILL
Mayor Bloomberg faces a grilling under oath over claims that his financial-news company discriminates against workers who become pregnant. Bloomberg -- who allegedly once told a top saleswoman, "Kill it,"...
MIKE'S $OUR DOUGH
Talk about saving some dough! With the economy still in critical condition and no cure in site, Mayor Bloomberg released an austere election-year budget yesterday that cuts even the bread...
IT'S TIME TO LEARN A 'TRADE'
You know times are tough when the tony cafe at a prestigious Manhattan bank gets turned into a thrift store. That's what happened yesterday at the ING Direct Café, which...
WHEN PRIGS FLY: BIDEN JETS TO EUROPE
WASHINGTON -- Vice President Joe Biden -- who stuck his pig's foot in his mouth Thursday by saying he "wouldn't go anywhere in confined places right now" -- is jetting...
COMBATING HOLY EUCHA-RISK
Archbishop Timothy Dolan is telling local Catholics to consider not taking Communion wine and not shaking hands during the Sign of Peace at Sunday Mass to combat swine flu. "We've...
COP-BITER GUILTY
A Staten Island man may get to spend the next 10 years in prison for biting off part of a cop's finger at an Atlantic City casino. Rafael Pichardo, 30,...
NY FEAR FOR MISSING BRO
An acclaimed poet and college professor with ties to New York City is missing in Japan. Yale-educated wordsmith Craig Arnold, 41, was researching a book when he vanished Monday while...
'TERMINAL' STUPIDITY OF 'GUN THIEF'
An air-headed JetBlue baggage handler was busted for stealing an NYPD sergeant's gun from a locked luggage container at JFK Airport, officials said yesterday. Tamarcus Hines, 21, of Rosedale, Queens,...
'SLAY WIFE' THEATRICS
A Staten Island woman accused of killing her fire-marshal husband burst into "theatrical" hysterics and chugged shots of whiskey as she spun an allegedly bogus yarn for authorities about discovering...
GREAT GRAN DIES IN BLAZE
A 91-year-old great grandmother died in a smoky blaze yesterday at her Brooklyn home after an air-conditioning unit caught fire, officials said. The inferno erupted just after 6 p.m. in...
SHEL WARNING ON MTA TAX: PAYBACK'S A HITCH
Gov. Paterson's proposal to reimburse school districts for their payroll-tax portion of an MTA bailout could make for a "slippery slope" -- as many nonprofits would also want to get...
A 'RANDY' SEX SUIT VS. RANDE
Cindy Crawford's business-mogul hubby is in hot water after some waitresses who worked at one of his California restaurants sued him for sexual harassment, according to a report. The two...
LENO: I WAS EXHAUSTED
Jay Leno said yesterday that the undisclosed illness that kept him from his show last week was nothing more than "exhaustion," according to a magazine report. Leno, 58, told People...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Now that's brotherly love! An Alaskan shoved a cop in order to spend time in the clink with his jailed sibling. Following a fight in Fairbanks, David Ginnis, 35, asked...
MINAYA ON 'EDGE' OVER COMMENTS RIPPING METS
PHILADELPHIA -- Omar Minaya moved quickly yesterday to douse a potential brushfire of his own making, contradicting himself wildly in the process. METS BLOGBOX SCORE Disturbed by the Mets' disappointing...
LONGORIA 'SLAMS' BOSOX
Evan Longoria extended his torrid hitting against Boston with a grand slam and Carlos Pena also homered last night, helping the Rays beat the Red Sox 6-2 in St. Petersburg,...
WADE, HEAT ROMP TO FORCE GAME 7
MIAMI -- Dwyane Wade soared past Zaza Pachulia, throwing down a fierce dunk as the Atlanta forward sent him sprawling into a row of photographers. Down. Definitely not out. When...
HONDO IS ON FIRE
Sizzling Hondo maintained his 100 percent approval rating for the week last night in Philly, scoring with the Metamucils for a sixth straight victory that increased his beefy bankroll to...
FREE TIX, LAX ICONS DRAW FANS TO GARDEN
Two of the best players in the history of a sport face off in the first playoff game ever held at Madison Square Garden. Even better, one of them, the...
HERE'S HOW TO GET ON WINNING TRACK
PHILADELPHIA -- This is what gives you an edge. Carlos Beltran sliding into home in the third inning, scoring on a sacrifice fly. No strikeouts by David Wright, an RBI...
HIP CHECK KEEPS DELGADO OUT; MAY LAND HIM ON DL
PHILADELPHIA -- Carlos Delgado's balky hip knocked him out of the lineup last night, and he could be heading to the disabled list. METS BLOGBOX SCORE Delgado, who hasn't played...
ALL SIGNS POINT TO 'REVENGE'
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Four of the most successful Kentucky Derby betting systems in vogue point to a spectacular play in the 135th edition of the great classic at Churchill Downs...
STORMY FORECAST ANOTHER CHALLENGE FOR BETTORS
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- The sun ain't shining bright on the Old Kentucky Home. Rain fell on Churchill Downs yesterday, thunderstorms were expected overnight, and the latest forecast calls for showers...
EXPECT MANNY TO PULL OFF HATT TRICK
LAS VEGAS -- I like Manny Pacquiao to defeat Ricky Hatton tonight when the two meet in their junior welterweight fight at the MGM Grand Garden Arena (pay per view,...
CONGRESS CALLS OUT THE BCS
Another day, another lame excuse offered up by the overseers of the BCS as to why there shouldn't be a playoff system, or anything better than the current system. John...
REX KEEPING DOOR OPEN FOR PLAX
Rex Ryan left the door open for a possible marriage between the Jets and troubled receiver Plaxico Burress yesterday. The team admitted speaking to Burress' agent, Drew Rosenhaus, before the...
RYAN IMPRESSED WITH JETS NEW STANDOUT QUARTERBACK
Mark Sanchez will fly back to Los Angeles on Monday to take his final test as a USC student before his graduation in two weeks. If he does half as...
ROBERTSON BROTHERS HAVE BIG APPLE CONNECTION
David and Connor Robertson are pitchers, but their younger brother, Wesley, doesn't play baseball. A few weeks ago, though, he could have kept score in a sibling rivalry. On April...
TURNING 30 NO BIG DEAL FOR SANTANA
There's a natural arc of productivity in every baseball career. Players start slow, get better with time, and eventually decline with age. The pinnacle of this arc often comes around...
FORMER AMAZIN' CLOSER GETTING BACK TO BALLPARK
JOHN Franco will be spending more time at the ballpark this season after taking a step back from the pro game the last three years.METS BLOGBOX SCORE That's a good...
ROTO FILES
THE METS acquired former Mariners closer J.J. Putz in the offseason and installed him as their primary setup man for Francisco Rodriguez, a rare case of a eighth-inning reliever with...
JOHN DASILVA'S STAKES SPOT PLAYS
BEAUGAY Belmont, 8th race, Grade 3, $100,000 Beaugay, fillies & mares, 4 and up, 1 1/16th, inner turf. Post: 4:44 p.m. TV: HRTV, TVG, OTB Ch. 71 LOWDOWN: With the...
FIRST FLEA OF SEASON
THE Market in McCarren opens today, meaning the hipster Brooklyn park will be even hipsterier. Flea market coordinator Artist and Fleas has partnered with the Open Space Alliance for North...
PELFREY & CO. KNOCK PHILS OUT OF PARK
PHILADELPHIA -- Omar Minaya challenged the Mets in his own bumbling, contradictory way, but it worked -- at least for one night. METS BLOGBOX SCORE Just hours after it came...
SWISHER LEAVES GAME WITH INJURED ELBOW
Jorge Posada's first-inning home run came with a price tag last night. Angels pitcher Jered Weaver drilled the ensuing batter, Nick Swisher, in the right elbow, and the Yankees were...
POSADA HELPS ERASE 5-RUN HOLE VS. HALOS
This must be how Tiger Woods feels after hitting his tee shot into the trees and then draining a ridiculous birdie putt. The Yankees are in that kind of zone....
LITTLE THINGS ADD UP FOR POWERFUL END
NICK Swisher got plunked by Jared Weaver near the elbow in the first, was gone by the third for X-rays (negative), leaving the Yankees leading home-run hitter (with seven) day-to-day,...
DERBY HOPEFUL GALLOPS WITH CONFIDENCE
Trainer Tom McCarthy, 75, a former biology teacher and high school principal in Louisville, has his first Derby starter this year, Blue Grass winner General Quarters. This week he shares...
'RACHEL' CRUISES TO OAKS VICTORY
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- No, that wasn't a replay of Secretariat's Belmont Stakes yesterday at Churchill Downs. But it was the closest thing to it anyone's seen since, when the 3-year-old...
FEIN: MUSKET IS THE 'MAN'
Thousands spend their lives in the racing business and never come close to entering a horse in the Kentucky Derby. Eric Fein, a Queens-born thoroughbred owner who owns EAM Land...
RED BULLS VISIT GALAXY
The Red Bulls are hoping Wednesday's U.S. Open Cup play-in victory will jump-start their MLS campaign. They play tonight (10:30 p.m., MSG) at a team struggling even worse than they...
TIGER ONE BACK AT QUAIL HOLLOW
Bubba Watson overpowered Quail Hollow and wound up with a perfect day -- he tied a course record with a 30 on the front nine, shot 7-under 65 to share...
SPORTS SHORTS
SPORTS SHORTSNFL: Vikes coach: We'll assess Favre Brett Favre says he's retired, but Minnesota coach Brad Childress acknowledges it's likely the Vikings will at least assess their interest in the...
NEW MONTH, SAME PROBLEMS FOR TEIXEIRA
The first of May might as well have been the 31st of April for Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira and his batting average. Teixeira had to be relieved when he...
PETTITTE BATTLES IN OFF-NIGHT
Andy Pettitte found his enemy with his first pitch. It was Andy Pettitte. "I felt I've been so good mechanically the whole year," said Pettitte, who worked 5 2/3 innings...
GET CYCLED!
WHETHER you just moved here or are a lifelong New Yorker, there is no better way to get to know the city than biking, full stop. And if you're too...
JUST LIKE A BIKE
CYCLISTS who prefer speeding in spin classes can get pumped with this new twist on the stationary bike -- it's not stationary! But that doesn't mean riders will be flying...
CHAIN GANG
WANT to bike in New York and stay alive? Me, too! As a brand-new biker on the mean streets of Manhattan, I'd describe my skills as 50 percent looking cool...
POLS RAG ON HARTMARX
The survival of men's apparel maker Hartmarx -- a clothier of choice for President Barack Obama -- has become a hot-button political issue. The Chicago-based maker of labels like Hickey...
WHAT'S UP?
Today FAMILY FEUD: We've all been tempted to trade in our kin. No wonder "Everything About a Family (Almost)" rings a bell -- it's about a kid who tries to...
PLATTERS THAT MATTER
ROBERT BOBBERT "Robbert Bobbert & The Bubble Machine" Robert Schneider, frontman of popular indie rock band Apples in Stereo, brings his brand of catchy, upbeat tunes and bizarro bloops and...
GETTIN' ZIGGY WITH IT
ZIGGY Marley knows what it's like to grow up around music. The oldest son of Bob Marley grew up in a house filled with it -- everything from the reggae...
TERRORISM VIA OUR AIRWAVES
THE case of "Hezbollah's man in New York" offers a compelling glimpse into the expan sive world of 21st-century terrorism, where democratic free-speech rights are exploited by terror groups as...
THE RICH GET SOAKED
WHY complain about the financial crisis? By liberalism's standards, it has been a swift sword of economic justice, working to equalize wealth more rapidly than any policy short of summary...
GOODBYE, GOLDEN GIRL: BEA ARTHUR'S FINAL ACT
I find it sad that Bea Arthur has bid us a fond adieu ("Final Bow for 'Maude,' " April 26). I remember the characters she played, from Maude to Dorothy...
THE PROMISE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY
Talk about ignoring things we know about energy: James Schlesinger and Robert L. Hirsch completely forget about nuclear-fueled energy plants (" 'Renewable' Energy's False Promise," Post- Opinion, April 27). As...
CHRYSLER LENDER REVOLT LOOMING
Chrysler's attempt to quickly breeze through bankruptcy court began quietly yesterday, but the real drama could come Monday when a group of renegade lenders say they will fight to block...
FED EXTENDS TALF LOANS
The Federal Reserve authorized longer-term loans for investors buying securities backed by commercial mortgages in a $1 trillion emergency credit program, taking a step the industry said was needed to...
TEST RESULTS STRESS EMBATTLED BANK CEOS
Stressed-out bankers will have to sweat it out a little bit longer as the results of the so-called bank stress tests get pushed back to Thursday. The Federal Reserve and...
BUSINESS BRIEFS
Thornburg Thornburg Mortgage, the "jumbo" home lender racked by the collapse of US mortgage markets, filed for bankruptcy a month after saying it would seek court protec tion and shut...
LIVING IN AL SHARPTON WORLD
Only Al Sharpton could consider a $285,000 Federal Election Commis sion fine -- one of the heftiest such penalties ever -- a "vindication." That's because the FEC originally sought to...
GROWN-UPS AT CITY HALL
Mayor Mike kicked off his annual bud get kabuki with the City Council yesterday by rolling out a $60 billion spending plan with lots of question marks -- and grounds...
THE NEXT SUPREME
Supreme Court Justice David Souter yesterday informed President Obama that he'll be stepping down at the end of the high court's term next month, giving Obama an early first shot...
MORTGAGE-BACKED LOAN DEFAULTS SOAR
Defaults and late payments on property loans sold as commercial mortgage-backed securities tripled to 1.8 percent of outstanding balances in the first quarter and may rise to the highest in...
FORD LEADS PACK
Consumers last month continued to shun buying a car, with a looming bankruptcy at Chrysler gut-punching that automaker while Ford struck gold amid the carnage by selling more cars in...
MARKET CONFIDENCE RISES
US manufacturing and consumer confidence last month unexpectedly jumped to their highest levels, helping stocks start the month on a up note. The Institute for Supply Management's factory index rose...
GLOBAL WARNING
The New York Times Co.'s effort to wring millions in cost savings out of The Boston Globe's largest union remained unresolved last night, as both sides faced a midnight deadline...
O'S WRONG TAKE ON WAR 'SHORTCUTS'
IN his press conference Wednesday night, President Obama offered a nice little sermonette on "shortcuts." Asked about his decision to release the "torture memos" and ban waterboarding, Obama said: "I...
GREENBERG TO SELL AIG STAKE
Maurice "Hank" Greenberg has said he will sell his nearly 12.9 million shares in American International Group to Starr International Co. for at least $1.25 a share, The Wall Street...
HIP CHECK
CRITICAL self-assess ment is never easy -- especially for the media, so often accused of bias to the left or the right. Tomorrow's second-season opener of "The IFC Media Project,"...
TURN, TURN, TURN 90
PETE Seeger turns 90 tomorrow. But if you're at the bakery to buy him a birth day cake, turn around and walk out the door. Codfish cake is what he...
'JONAS' GALS' TWEEN DREAM
IF the Jonas Brothers' ex istence as tween super stars seems surreal, imagine what it's like to co-star in a series that's a fictionalized version of their lives. That's exactly...
YANKEES RALLY FOR 10-9 WIN OVER ANGELS
Jorge Posada hit a two-run single in the ninth inning off Brian Fuentes, and the New York Yankees rallied from a five-run deficit to beat the Los Angeles Angels 10-9...
MURPHY, PELFREY LEAD METS TO 7-4 WIN OVER PHILLIES
Daniel Murphy hit a two-run homer, Mike Pelfrey pitched 5 1-3 effective innings and the New York Mets beat the Philadelphia Phillies 7-4 on Friday night in the first meeting...
Vegas Weights: Pacquiao 138; Hatton 140
The Fight is on. Manny Pacquiao weighed in at 138 today. Ricky Hatton 140 BY GEORGE WILLISLAS VEGAS--A standing-room only crowd of 6,000 was on-hand for today's weigh-in for tomorrow's...