May 25, 2009
Perez set for Triple-A start
Oliver Perez will make his first Triple-A rehab assignment Tuesday night in Buffalo against Lehigh Valley. Perez pitched in two extended spring training games in Port St. Lucie earlier this...
Game 44: Nationals at Mets
(UPDATED) Battered by injury after their grueling, 10-game trek through San Francisco, Los Angeles and Boston, the Mets hope the lowly Nationals can provide a tonic tonight when John Maine...
EPL: Hello and Good-bye
The campaign is over and the chaff has been separated from the wheat in the Premier League.Gone are Newcastle, Middlesbrough and West Bromwich Albion ... just as it should be....
Report: Vikings want Favre's answer
The Viking are running out of patience with Brett Favre and want to know if the ex-Jets and Packers quarterback will un-retire by this weekend, according to a report by...
Duds & Studs of the week
By JUSTIN TERRANOVAMets stud -- Omir SantosSantos' two-run home run off Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon on Saturday night salvaged what would have been a miserable end to the Mets'...
T.O. blames Romo, Garrett for Cowboys' cut
By JUSTIN TERRANOVAI was surprised he stayed quiet this long.Terrell Owens responded to a fan on his Twitter page, who said he wasn't happy the Cowboys cut the outlandish receiver."Neither...
Bruney headed back to DL
By GEORGE A. KING IIIYankees' set-up man Brian Bruney is headed back to the disabled list.Bruney and the Yankees came to the decision after the reliever played catch this morning...
David Cook Tweet Week
Although David Cook Tweet Week has come to an end, you can still find all of David's answers to your questions here at the New York Post!- Melissa Jane KronfeldVIDEO:...
Coverage in The Post
The injury-ravaged Mets could tempt fate -- and the powerful Red Sox in their vaunted park -- for only so long. The luck ran out Sunday in an ugly, 12-5...
BLAST ROCKS STARBUCKS
A small bomb set off outside an apartment building early this morning rattled residents on the Upper East Side. Placed under a bench outside a Starbucks on E. 92nd Street...
Swiss Ref to Oversee Champions League Final
APMassimo Busacca of Switzerland was announced Monday by UEFA as the referee for the Champions League final between Barcelona and Manchester United.Wednesday's match in Rome's Stadio Olimpico will be Busacca's...
Newcastle, Middlesbrough Relegated
ReutersA cruel own goal by Damien Duff condemned Newcastle United to relegation from the Premier League following a 1-0 defeat at Aston Villa on Sunday.Newcastle followed North-East rivals Middlesbrough through...
HEWITT OVERCOMES 55 ACES AT FRENCH
PARIS -- Lleyton Hewitt lunged and whiffed at some serves, his racket hitting only air. He simply stood and watched other balls whir past. Over and over and over again...
WINGS CLOBBER CHICAGO; ONE WIN FROM FINALS
CHICAGO -- Marian Hossa's short-handed goal got the short-handed Red Wings started yesterday. And once they got rolling, the defending champions overpowered the frustrated Blackhawks and moved within one win...
SPORTS SHORTS
SPORTS SHORTSGOLF: Sabbatini roars to Byron Nelson win In Irving, Texas, Rory Sabbatini won the Byron Nelson Championship, finishing with a two-stroke victory over late-charging Brian Davis. Sabbatini shot a...
LOCAL LACROSSE TEAM IN LIMBO
The New York Titans moved between Madison Square Garden and the Prudential Center this season, as the National Lacrosse League team orchestrated an East Division championship. A team without an...
LUCK OF THE LACKEYS
It's Memorial Day. Do you know where your summer internship is? OK, you might have missed the boat for the big-ticket paid internship programs, whose spots were filled months ago....
GO TO GREG
Q Is listing a family business in your job experience considered a negative? Will employers conclude that I'd get some experience and then go back to Daddy, or figure that...
SUSAN BOYLE MAKES FINAL
Singing sensation Susan Boyle will have another week to make a magical "Memory!" The frumpy church volunteer and worldwide web hit advanced to the final of "Britain's Got Talent" by...
OUT & PROUD
AREN'T you glad you decided to stay in town this weekend? Because while those suckers who went to the Hamptons are getting ready to be stuck on the LIE, you...
CASTRONEVES WINS THIRD INDY 500
INDIANAPOLIS -- Helio Castroneves capped a perfect month of May with the biggest win of all, pulling away to capture his third Indianapolis 500 just 5½ weeks after being acquitted...
BUTTON SEWS UP ANOTHER VICTORY
MONACO -- Brawn GP's Jenson Button won the Monaco Grand Prix yesterday, capturing his fifth victory in six races to extend his Formula One championship lead. "We've got Monaco baby,"...
CRAZY '8'S
JON and Kate taped a special segment to air during tonight's season premiere episode of the increasingly scandalous reality show, "Jon & Kate Plus 8." The segment was taped last...
WHO'S ZOOMIN' WHO?
MY overriding thought after watching the conspiracy theorists documented in "New World Order" wasn't the validity of their ideas, but their arrogance and preening self-absorption. How else to explain how...
LEBRON, CAVS CAN'TREPEAT MAGIC ACT
ORLANDO -- LeBron James had no shot. Dwight Howard scored 24 points -- 14 on free throws -- and Rafer Alston added 18 as the Magic, sick of seeing replays...
BOREL WAITS FOR A RIDE
Calvin Borel stands poised to become the first jockey to win the Triple Crown since Steve "The Kid" Cauthen rode Affirmed in 1978. Today, we find out which horse he'll...
BATTY BOSOX SALVAGE FINALE AGAINST RAVAGED AMAZIN'S
BOSTON -- And on the last day, the Mets' Fenway Magic finally ran out. TONIGHT'S PREVIEW: Nationals at MetsMETS BLOG After back-to-back, logic-defying wins on the final leg of its...
K-ROD 'BACK' IN BUSINESS
BOSTON -- Because of some potent medication, Mets closer Frankie Rodriguez made a lightning-fast recovery yesterday after Saturday night's scary postgame collapse from back spasms. TONIGHT'S PREVIEW: Nationals at MetsMETS...
NO CLEAR FAVORITE IN METROPOLITAN
The traditional Memorial Day feature at Belmont Park, the Metropolitan Handicap, used to rank among the most prestigious races in America, a showcase for immortals like Equipoise and Stymie, Tom...
LIDGE NOT FAZED BY DéJà VU
Brad Lidge, who didn't blow a save a season ago, now has coughed up four opportunities in 12 chances -- and two on consecutive days in The Bronx. YANKEES BLOG...
RED BULLS SHOOT BLANKS IN DEFEAT
The Red Bulls were supposed to use this four-game homestand to get back into the Eastern Conference race. But after yesterday's 1-0 loss to unbeaten Chicago, they're mired even deeper...
LOSS STILL SHOWS 7 SIGNS OF SUCCESS
MELKY Cabrera's first name was being chanted loudly in the ninth inning yesterday and the surprise hero of the Yankees' late show struck again, delivering an RBI single that tied...
NO MIRACLE RALLY AS PHILS 'EXTRA' STRONG
The pessimist says the Yankees lost a series to the Phillies, coming close to another "How-in-blazes did they do that?" rally, tying the game in the ninth but ultimately losing,...
HONDO'S RAY OF HOPE
The Angels came through for their colleague Hondo yesterday, decking the Dodgers to send the profits soaring past the half-grand mark. Tonight, with 510 brohamers stuffed into his pocket, Price...
TIME TO TURN FLUSHING INTO FAT CITI
BOSTON -- The Mets believe they are beginning to gain that long-lost edge they've been searching for; we'll see about that beginning tonight at Citi Field against the doormat Nationals....
BRAVES SWEEP AWAY BLUE JAYS
Brian McCann homered twice, pinch-hitter Chipper Jones drove in the go-ahead run with a bases-loaded single in the seventh inning and the Braves beat the Blue Jays 10-2 yesterday in...
TEIXEIRA CRACKS BAT, STILL HITS HR
Cole Hamels sent a 1-1 fastball to the plate in the sixth inning. Mark Teixeira swung and made good contact toward the barrel of the bat. YANKEES BLOG It just...
METS SHORTSTOP SITUATION GETS MURKIER
BOSTON -- The Mets' shortstop situation couldn't be any murkier going into tonight's opener of a three-game series with the Nationals at Citi Field. TONIGHT'S PREVIEW: Nationals at MetsMETS BLOG...
C.W. POST CLAIMS LACROSSE TITLE
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- C.W. Post held off a furious rally to beat LeMoyne 8-7 for the NCAA men's Division II lacrosse championship yesterday. Greg Cerar scored four second-half goals for...
RAGING RUDY MENACED ME
He says it was Rudy Giuliani who threatened to knock his block off -- not the other way around. Publisher and filmmaker John McCluskey -- who was busted for harassing...
MOB MOLL THREATENS TO SUE OVER G-MAN BOOK
The star witness in the ill-fated case against FBI supervisor Lindley DeVecchio is trying to cash in on a new book about the case -- claiming the author used her...
TRAFFIC AGENT ON MEND AFTER BRONX MOWDOWN
A traffic agent run over by a Bronx driver trying to escape a double-parking ticket is "doing much better," the victim's aunt said yesterday. Sabrina Rosada, 26, is in guarded...
GAL PAL ID'D IN HARVARD MURDER
A young Harlem woman who won a scholarship to Harvard was identified yesterday by sources at the university as the girlfriend of the New York City man accused of killing...
POWELL'S 'TORTURE' DEFENSE
WASHINGTON -- Former Secretary of State Colin Powell yesterday defended the use of interrogation techniques like waterboarding in the period immediately following 9/11 -- even though he now disapproves of...
PELOSI'S CHINA MISSION
SHANGHAI -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, long a fierce critic of Beijing, toured China's financial center of Shanghai today on a visit meant to highlight common goals in promoting clean...
N. KOREA IN 2ND NUKE TEST
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea defiantly declared today that it successfully carried out its second underground nuclear test -- a major provocation less than two months after launching a...
ANDY SLAMS TAX HIKES
ATTORNEY General Andrew Cuomo has challenged the claim by Gov. Paterson and the Legislature's Democratic leaders that they had to raise taxes last month to balance this year's record-high state...
VAN WITH A PLAN
What's stronger than Samson, as big as Mount Sinai and 100 percent kosher? It's the massive, new $250,000 mobile security command center that an Orthodox Jewish civilian neighborhood patrol in...
WAR'HOLE' SUIT NIXED
A lawsuit against a Queens art-storage facility over a cracked Andy Warhol painting was quietly withdrawn after records showed the work had been handed over to the owner three months...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Bronx Three young men were shot and wounded yesterday after a gunman accosted them in Wakefield, police said. The victims, ages 18 to 21, were shot in their legs on...
NAZI DRAMA IS KING AT CANNES
CANNES, France -- Austrian director Michael Haneke won the Palme d'Or for best picture at the Cannes Film Festival yesterday for "The White Ribbon," an eerie, black-and-white exploration of the...
NYPD BULLETS FOR BUCKS
They're made of brass, but they're worth their weight in gold to the city. Up for sale this week are 28,800 pounds of empty, brass shell casings collected from the...
LI FATHER KEEPS A MEMORY ALIVE
One retired NYPD cop doesn't celebrate Memorial Day -- he lives it. For the past three years, heartbroken dad Bill McNaughton has proudly tended to his son's grave as an...
AMAZING 'FEET' ON BROADWAY
Broadway became the Great Walk Way yesterday -- the first day of the ambitious vehicle ban that transportation officials say will actually improve traffic flow. The experiment -- set to...
HOLIDAY IS BEACHY KEEN
It's backyard barbecues, beaches and beating a path to local parades for Memorial Day revelers across the city today. The water might still be a little too cold to plunge...
'RED' RAGE! SOX SNAPS AT FOTOG
Talk about your sore losers! Boston Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon took out his frustrations on Post photographer Anthony Causi Saturday night, hurling a towel at the lensman after blowing...
'RAPE' PROBE AT JET KERRY RHODES' HOME
New Jersey cops are investigating a woman's claim that she was raped at the home of star Jets defensive back Kerry Rhodes after meeting him and another man at a...
LEYRITZ IN TEARY DENIAL
Ex-Yankee Jim Leyritz claims that the fatal DUI accident he's accused of causing wasn't his fault and that he breaks down and cries because, "People are so wrong about who...
EX-GIANT SHOCKEY COLLAPSES
Former Giants tight end Jeremy Shockey keeled over at a Las Vegas party yesterday and was carted off to a hospital, it was reported last night. Greg Bensel, a spokesman...
BX. 'JIHAD' SIB: SNITCH FUNDED MY TRANSPLANT
The brother of an accused would-be Bronx synagogue bomber yesterday said the FBI informant in the case offered to pay for "my trip to Universal Studios" after footing the bill...
SCHOOLS GET BACK TO THE DATA-BASICS
Call it CompStat for schools. The NYPD's data-driven reporting system -- known as CompStat -- helped drive down crime under Rudy Giuliani. Building on that success, Mayor Bloomberg's Department of...
PS 14 TEACHERS TEAM UP TO LEARN FROM MISTAKES
Data rules at PS 14 in Corona, Queens. Eight separate investigative teams help bolster instruction at the K-5 school by analyzing reams of student test and assessment data, then acting...
QUEENS WOMAN CITY'S SECOND SWINE-FLU DEATH
A Queens woman in her 50s has become the city's second confirmed swine-flu fatality. The woman, who died Friday night or Saturday, had underlying health conditions, said a Health Department...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Buddy the boa has turned up after escaping from his cage at a Maine high school. The 2-foot snake disappeared on May 12 at Greenville HS. It turned out he...
BUSINESS BRIEFS
Holiday All major US stock exchanges and the bond market are closed for the Memorial Day holi day. Trading resumes tomorrow. Fiat's bid Fiat revised its offer for Opel, the...
THE MOTHER OF ALL BRITISH SCANDALS
'DEMOCRACY," said Winston Churchill, "is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried from time to time." Well, the Mother of Parliaments in London...
STOP STOP & FRISK
*** In just three months, the NYPD stopped and interrogated enough completely innocent New Yorkers to fill the new Yankee Stadium three times over ("Face Facts on Frisks," Heather Mac...
THE DEAD WE HONOR
Memorial Day inspires mixed emotions: pride in the valor of those who gave their lives in the cause of freedom; sorrow that such self-sacri fice should have been necessary. The...
STERLING MEMORIAL
USS Growler rode high in the water at the Intrepid Mu seum on the West Side of Manhattan Thursday, sparkling slate-gray in the midday sunshine though dwarfed by the historic...
DANGER DOWN THE ROAD FROM BAM'S GAS GOALS
THE ISSUE: President Obama's new national fuel-economy and tailpipe-emission standards. *** As usual, President Obama puts on a great show with little substance ("O Unveils Emission Strategy," May 20). Changes...
GOLDMAN TWICE SHUT OUT OF BANK AUCTIONS
When it comes to buying banks, it looks as if Goldman Sachs might have lost its touch. At least that what some private-equity players are saying after the enviable darling...
NEW ENZON BOARD TEST
Heavyweight investors including Carl Icahn are testing a new tactic for ejecting CEOs who chain themselves to their chairs, kicking and screaming, fighting against any attempts to oust them. Some...
JEREMY SHOCKEY RUSHED TO HOSPITAL AT 2 P.M. AFTER PARTY
Former Giants tight end Jeremy Shockey keeled over at a Las Vegas party Sunday and was carted off to a hospital, it was reported Sunday night. Greg Bensel, a spokesman...
Mets minors options at short
With Jose Reyes still sidelined with leg injuries and replacements Alex Cora (thumb) and Ramon Martinez (back) now injured as well, the Mets may have to turn to one of...
Rangers' Edu, Liege's Onyewu win titles
The U.S. National Team didn't play, but they still had a great day today. A host of Americans Abroad either won silverware or at least earned their way into postseason...
Red Bulls lose to Chicago...yet again
The Red Bulls can't beat Chicago or Jon Busch The Red Bulls were supposed to use this four-game homestand to get back into the Eastern Conference race. But after today's...