June 19, 2009
RBNY opens 2nd half Saturday vs. Seattle
The Red Bulls kicked off their season by getting kicked around 3-0 in Seattle, and they'll start the second half tomorrow (7:30 p.m., MSG) versus the same expansion Sounders. In...
USDA HAS KILLED ABOUT 800 GEESE SO FAR
About 800 Canada geese have been trapped and gassed around New York City's two airports in an effort to reduce the kinds of bird strikes that led to the ditching...
INVESTMENT ADVISER GETS 8-PLUS YEARS IN PRISON
A Manhattan investment adviser has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison for engineering a Ponzi scheme that cost investors more than $13 million. Federal Judge Victor Marrero...
Clemens finally gives reader interview
Leading off with "The truth is the truth," Roger Clemens finally gave answers to questions from readers of Houstonist.com.The Web site says it worked for five weeks to set up...
SONIC DRIVE-IN FINALLY MAKES IT TO METRO AREA
New Yorkers hungry for burgers and nostalgia can look no further than 12 miles across the Hudson River come this weekend. Sonic Drive-in, the burger chain where rollerskating staff deliver...
COP ARRESTED FOR SHOPLIFTING IN QUEENS
An off-duty NYPD officer was arrested for shoplifting from a Queens athletics store, The Post has learned. Thirelle Taffe, 38, was picked up for swiping sandals from a Sports Authority...
Your cheap weekend
I am simultaneously surprised, disappointed and perversely pleased to see that apart from my own rave, the reviews of "Stunning" so far are mixed to negative. I guess critics want...
WOMAN SAYS PEDICAB RIDE ENDED IN INJURY
A Brooklyn woman says she suffered a "serious injury" while enjoying a pedicab ride through Central Park. In what's believed to be a first of its kind case, Ana Angeli...
YANKEES GIVING A-ROD REST
MIAMI -- Body fatigued and with a swing infected by a severe case of the reaches, Alex Rodriguez was removed from the Yankees lineup tonight against the Marlins in his...
Cornerback Barksdale waived
By PAUL SCHWARTZIn a somewhat surprising move, the Giants waived cornerback Rashad Barksdale, who last year was on the practice squad until he was signed to the roster at the...
AIDE: HUBBY OF ENSIGN'S MISTRESS TRIED TO SHAKE SENATOR DOWN
LAS VEGAS -- An aide to Sen. John Ensign says the husband of the Nevada senator's former mistress demanded "cash and other financial benefits" through an attorney. Ensign spokesman Tory...
Mets calling up Evans makes little sense
The Mets really must have needed a right-handed bat on the bench. Otherwise, it seems foolish for them to have called up Nick Evans today. Evans, who burst onto the...
F-Mart demoted, Evans in his place
(UPDATED) The Mets showed just how thin their system is today by sending struggling young outfielder Fernando Martinez back to Triple-A Buffalo and calling up the even-more-struggling Nick Evans to...
SI CLAN ROUNDED UP ON DRUG CHARGES
Call it a family affair. Cops arrested five members of drug-dealing Staten Island clan in two separate raids, authorities said today. Officers, acting on a tip, raided the Heartland Village...
Pixar Grants Girl's Last Wish
Just when I thought my opinion of Pixar couldn't possibly get any higher, along comes this heart-tugging and beautifully written account of how the genius makers of "Up'' made a...
PATERSON TO CALL SPECIAL SESSION IF SENATE FAILS TO RESOLVE GRIDLOCK
ALBANY -- Gov. Paterson will order the state Senate to meet in a special session Wednesday if battling senators fail to resolve a two-week power struggle, a state official said...
UPDATE: Start getting real in Cancun
Salud, reality television; cent' anni. You never fail to reinstill my faith in both Jesus Christ and my fellow man.But sometimes I wish you weren't so darn high-minded. Sometimes, I'm...
WIDOW SUING METS AFTER HUSBAND'S SHEA ESCALATOR ACCIDENT
A Brooklyn widow is suing the Mets and the city after her husband was killed in a freak escalator accident at Shea Stadium last year, court papers reveal. Antonio Narainasami,...
MAN CONVICTED OF TRYING TO GRAB 11-YEAR-OLD GIRL
A pervert who tried to grab an 11-year-old girl off a Brooklyn street was convicted today of attempted kidnap. Bernard Mutterperl, 21, followed Xochil Garcia into a Midwood apartment building...
PAPELBON: I COULD SIGN WITH YANKEES
Now pitching for the Yankees ... Jonathan Papelbon? The Red Sox closer says "anywhere is a possiblity" when he becomes a free agent after the 2011 season. That includes closing...
The Best Quotes in Sports Comedy History
Casual Friday here at Mark My Words. And an early happy Father's Day to you all.Let's get to the list - the best lines from sports comedies ever. Enjoy -...
Game 65: Rays at Mets
(UPDATED) The Mets will rely on Triple-A call up Fernando Nieve to help them shake off another horrible loss tonight when the unheralded right-hander takes on the Rays in the...
CITY: HOSPITAL WORKERS TRIED TO COVER UP WAITING ROOM DEATH
At least four Kings County Hospital staffers could face criminal charges for their roles in covering up the death-by-neglect of a patient who died in a psychiatric emergency room there...
Torre thanks Boss at milestone
APLOS ANGELES -- After passing Sparky Anderson on the all-time wins list, Joe Torre made sure to thank the man who gave him a fourth oppotunity to manage in the...
FEDS: YONKERS POLICE DEPT. HAS CONFUSING USE OF FORCE RULES
YONKERS, N.Y. -- The Justice Department says a New York police department has a skittish relationship with residents and confusing policies on the use of force. The findings are in...
NY MAN FACES HATE CRIMES, ASSAULT CHARGES
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. -- Police on Long Island say they have arrested a man who they say yelled anti-gay epithets during an attack on two men. Wenzola Roundree of Central...
JUNK POLL BOOSTED TEHRAN TYRANTS
No sooner had the first truncheon fallen on the head of an Iranian protester demanding that votes be fairly counted than two researchers from American advocacy groups rushed into print...
LEIGHTON MEESTER IN SEX TAPE SCANDAL
Leighton Meester should know that "Gossip" travels fast -- especially when it involves a sex tape. A sex tape of the 23-year-old "Gossip Girl" from a few years ago is...
US MILITARY TO INTERCEPT N. KOREA SHIP
The U.S. military is seeking to intercept a flagged North Korean ship suspected of proliferating weapons material in violation of a U.N. Security Council resolution passed last Friday, FOX News...
Yankees plan to pass on Pedro
By GEORGE A. KING IIIThe Yankees took a look at Pedro Martinez in the Dominican Republic and informed the right-handed pitcher they will pass on signing him.Yankees scout Gordon Blakeley...
Mickelson's round, shot-by-shot
By BRETT CYRGALISPhil Mickelson went off the tenth hole a little after 11 a.m. today for the start of his first round in the 109th US Open. He was playing...
US BOOSTS HAWAII DEFENSE TO COUNTER NORTH KOREA THREAT
SEOUL, South Korea -- The United States says it has deployed anti-missile defenses around Hawaii, following reports that North Korea is preparing to fire its most advanced ballistic missile in...
STATE SENATE GOES HOME, LEADERSHIP IN FLUX
ALBANY, N.Y. -- New York's Senate, still roiled by a power struggle, is closed for the weekend. Democrats and Republicans are back in their home districts until Monday, which is...
Coverage in The Post
It was only a few days ago that Frankie Rodriguez could be considered one of the Mets' few reliables. Now they can't even count on their All-Star closer after K-Rod...
Fans say Post helped with tickets
By MARK EVERSONFans were pleased and mostly satisfied, but wondering why it took the USGA overnight to decide that their soggy tickets from Thursday's rain-abbreviated U.S. Open round will be...
TENANTS RAGE AGAINST ESPADA
On Monday, June 8, Senator Pedro Espada Jr. hopped the aisle to vote with the Republican Party and pitch Democrat leaders out of power. Espada, elected to represent the northwest...
Tiger's round, shot-by-shot
By BRETT CYRGALISTiger Woods was a bit up and down today, the 14-time major champion first going out and getting it back to even par through 14 holes. Then he...
The Daily Whacks, Friday Edition II
You can count me among the tweetin' Twitterers (or is that the Twitterin' tweeters?) now: http://twitter.com/MikeVacc*******The defiance was galling, the arrogance appalling. And yet, right there, on the USGA web...
NESTLE RECALLS COOKIE DOUGH AFTER ILLNESSES
Federal authorities are investigating a new outbreak of a bacteria-triggered illness, this time related to a sweet treat treasured by the heartbroken and children-at-heart -- packaged raw cookie dough. The...
CHILD'S DEATH SPURS MORE FLU FEARS
The death of a Brooklyn public school student has reinforced parents' fears about swine flu. "Parents are more concerned than ever to say the least," said Doreen Daly, president of...
Rainout tickets honored Monday
By MARK EVERSONUSGA executive director David Fay announced this morning said the 34,000 holders of Thursday tickets for the U.S. Open will be given Monday access to Bethpage, if, as...
PARKVIEW AVE. 7-STORY CONDO PROJECT STALLED
A plan to develop the corner of Roberts and Parkview avenues has stalled, thanks to building code objections. On January 12, property owner Alfred Reyes and ITG Development Group asked...
TOO LATE TO SAVE YANK GATE
A pack of Yankee fans are determined to save Gate Two of the old Yankee Stadium. They want it to celebrate baseball history and dignify Heritage Field, a public park...
PELHAM BAY PARKING PLAN TO DOT
If the Department of Transportation listens to Councilman James Vacca, Pelham Bay could add angled parking and new, metered spots. On Monday, June 15, Vacca sent an advisory letter to...
RANDALL AVE. SQUATTERS SHOWN THE DOOR
A troublesome property on Randall Avenue which has had squatters living in it has been ordered sealed and vacated by the city due to a damaged roof, frequent fights, and...
LATE BROOKLYNITE'S CANCER FIGHT IS NOT OVER
Cancer robbed Patty Cavallo of her brave daughter Sienna last summer, but the disease has only strengthened the South Park Slope mom's resolve to battle for a cure. On June...
CLASS GOES GREEN
The City Council has given its blessing to the use of the Green Church site for a new school, bringing the proposal one step closer to fruition. "Today we unanimously...
BEEP BACKS AWAY FROM HOLOCAUST EXCLUSION
The Holocaust Memorial Park Committee has asked for Borough President Marty Markowitz's support in their push to stop the city from adding stones that would include homosexuals, gypsies and Jehovah's...
SAMPSON RISES OUT OF DUST UP
If one wants to make sense of all the madness brewing from week's Republican hijacking of the State Senate, all one has to do is ask Mill Basin/Sheepshead Bay State...
DEMS PRESENT DRAFT OF HEALTH CARE BILL
WASHINGTON -- Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives presented draft health care legislation Friday that they said would cover virtually all the nation's nearly 50 million uninsured, as President...
EX-MAYOR ED KOCH RECOVERING AFTER SURGERY
Former Mayor Ed Koch is recovering after surgery to replace a heart valve. A spokesman says the 84-year-old mayor is doing as well as expected after a challenging open heart...
TEXAS BILLIONAIRE JAILED AFTER $7B PONZI SCHEME INDICTMENT
WASHINGTON -- Brash Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford was indicted and jailed Friday on charges his international banking empire was really just a pyramid scheme built on lies, bluster and...
The Daily Whacks, Friday Edition
You can count me among the tweetin' Twitterers (or is that the Twitterin' tweeters?) now: http://twitter.com/MikeVacc*******The defiance is galling, the arrogance appalling. And yet, right there, on the USGA web...
FULL DAY OF PLAY AT US OPEN
Tiger Woods couldn't get off the course fast enough. Mike Weir, Phil Mickelson and a host of others on the right side of the rain at the U.S. Open were...
3 UP: POOR YANKEE EXCUSES
Yes, I am on Twitter.1. I want to talk about the most bogus excuse of 2009: "The Yankees can't hit pitchers with whom they are unfamiliar." It actually isn't just...
3 UP: LOUSY YANKEES, RISING JAYS
Yes, I am on Twitter.1. I want to talk about the most bogus excuse of 2009: "The Yankees can't hit pitchers with whom they are unfamiliar." It actually isn't just...
Drama Mama: Teen Angst
Tired of Heidi and Spencer? So is Drama Mama. But even though it's summer, there's still plenty of scripted fare on TV. Here's what to look for this week:"The Secret...
Box Office: Three-Way Battle
The female skewing comedy "The Proposal'' will go head to head with the male-skewing comedy "Year One'' this weekend, but the real question is whether either one can stop the...
Let's play two
By MARK CANNIZZAROAlas, golf.After a rain-soaked and suspended first round of U.S. Oen golf yesterday, there will be golf here today at Bethpage shortly with players resuming their opening round...
SUPREME LEADER: IRAN VOTE WAS 'DEFINITIVE VICTORY'
TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's supreme leader said Friday that the country's disputed presidential vote had not been rigged, sternly warning protesters of a crackdown if they continue massive demonstrations demanding...
U.S. OPEN TEE TIMES
U.S. Open Tee Times Players who began the first round yesterday will resume play at 7 a.m. at the hole they were competing on at the time of the suspension....
GARDNER OK AFTER SCARY WALL-BANGING CATCH
The Yankees lost a series to Washington last night. They should consider themselves lucky they didn't lose a center fielder too, after Brett Gardner crashed into the outfield wall in...
K-ROD, METS FALL IN NINTH
BALTIMORE -- This blown save was legit. Francisco Rodriguez only could blame himself after throwing away what was shaping up as a confidence-boosting win for the Mets last night. CHAT...
BOB OJEDA
IN HIS first year as a SNY studio analyst, former Mets pitcher Bob Ojeda hasn't been shy about offering his opinions. The Post's Mike Puma caught up with Ojeda to...
BETHPAGE FANS CAN'T HIDE LOVE FOR LEFTY
The best golfer on the planet probably doesn't stand a chance in the popularity contest this weekend. Tiger Woods owns the world -- but loses electoral votes to Phil Mickelson...
NOT FIRING BLANKS!!
Tiny mussel-like creatures living 100 million years ago produced super-sized sperm relative to their body size, scientists reported yesterday. The ostracodes, an extinct ancient class of arthropods, produced sperm as...
BRITAIN'S' $TIFFED UPPER LIP
LONDON -- Diplomats posted in Britain owe more than $44 million in unpaid parking tickets, traffic fines and fees for driving in London's so-called congestion zone, the government said yesterday....
ANGIE & BRAD'S $1M AID TO PAK
LOS ANGELES --Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have donated $1 million to a UN refugee agency to help Pakistanis displaced by fighting between troops and Taliban militants, the agency said...
BIKE CHAMP 'PEDALS' POT
A former world-champion mountain biker is facing 40 years in prison after she was caught with an Everest-size pile of pot during a federal drug bust upstate, officials said yesterday....
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Staten Island A Tompkinsville teen arrested for stealing $300 in coins from a neighbor's home later confessed to having sex with his underage girlfriend, law-enforcement officials said yesterday. Scott Perlmutter,...
WOODY: BRUNI-FUL!
Woody Allen has his eye on France's first lady. The Woodman, who's in Paris to publicize his new film, "Whatever Works," was asked yesterday whom he'd like in a film....
OLD MARTIANS HAD LAKE VIEW
LOS ANGELES -- NASA says new images from space suggest that the surface of Mars had a sizable lake billions of years ago. Pictures taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter...
TEHRAN: WE FOILED US 'TERROR'
TEHRAN -- Iran's staunch defense of its dubious election took a bizarre new turn yesterday when state TV reported that investigators foiled a US-linked terrorist plot to attack polling places....
WRIST SLAP FOR SIS IN TIMOSHENKO KILLER'S ESCAPE BID
The sister of the man who murdered NYPD Officer Russel Timoshenko two summers ago was sentenced yesterday to three years' probation for helping her brother and two accomplices escape. Nicole...
IRAN RAGE OVER ELEX 'MARTYRS'
TEHRAN, Iran -- Up to 1 million pro-democracy protesters turned out in central Tehran into yesterday as they joined opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi to mourn demonstrators killed by militia...
MULLAHS' MAJOR MEDIA MUZZLE
WASHINGTON -- The first indication that things in Iran were not going according to plan came when the mullahs went after the media. Government crackdowns on journalists are not new....
CRUEL B'KLYN 'PET FLUSHER'
Call him a shell of a man. Yamahi Hogarth not only beat his girlfriend in her East Flatbush apartment -- but also flushed her turtle down the toilet, sources said...
PERV-CAM RAP FOR LI LANDLORD
A Long Island landlord installed a hidden camera in the bedroom and bathroom of an apartment to spy on a 16-year-old girl living there, police said yesterday. Louis Bosco, 44,...
UIGHUR DEAL RILES BERMUDA POLS
WASHINGTON -- A tidal wave of controversy over the relocation of four Chinese Muslim Uighurs to Bermuda is spilling into the island's government -- with the top politician who negotiated...
MTA RIDERSHIP IN $LIDERSHIP
The sour economy has pushed straphanger commutes off the rails and onto the couch. Subway ridership has been down every month of 2009 when compared to the same periods in...
CHARTER TEACHERS CAN BOLT UFT
One of the two KIPP charter schools whose teachers had petitioned to leave the United Federation of Teachers has gotten the all-clear. Teachers at KIPP Infinity in Harlem were notified...
SILVER SLAPS TOP DEM ON SCHOOL CONTROL
State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver yesterday delivered a stern political lesson to new Senate Democratic leader John Sampson -- by rejecting Sampson's bid to curb mayoral control of the schools....
MICH. MAN NOT 1955 LI TODDLER
DETROIT -- DNA testing confirmed that a 54-year-old Michigan man is not the toddler kidnapped on Long Island in 1955, the FBI said yesterday. The tests showed John Barnes, of...
VOODOO HELL FOR GIRL, 6
A Queens woman torched her naked 6-year-old daughter as the girl's grandma watched in an apparent voodoo ritual, authorities said yesterday. Marie Lauradin, 29, lit an accelerant in the form...
EX-BERNIE MAN WANTS HIS SAY
A former worker at Bernie Madoff's securities firm has joined the line of victims wanting to lash out at the fraudster during his upcoming sentencing. Ken Hutchinson wrote that the...
TYRA'S 'FAN' GETS REHAB FOR CREEPS
The "overzealous fan" convicted of harassing Tyra Banks has to go to anti-stalking school, a Manhattan judge ordered yesterday. Judge James Burke sentenced Brady Green, 39, to one-year probation for...
MA'S GHOST GAVE ME TRANS-VE$TED INTEREST: THIEF
His mommy gave him permission. Cross-dressing con man Thomas Prusik-Parkin's dead mother spoke to him from beyond the grave, ordering him to dress in drag and scam $1 million in...
'STIRRUP' THE RIVALRY
First, it was Babe Ruth. Now, it's Mr. Ed. Boston's taking a beating again at the hands of the Big Apple, which is set to trot off with the cream...
TENNIS 'LOVE' LOST
For Tennisport -- one of the city's best-known public recreation facilities -- it's game, set, match. After 33 years in Hunters Point, Queens, the center that has hosted celebs and...
ASTOR'S 'EARLY' DEMISE
Anthony Marshall and his band of lawyers were so meticulous in their alleged greed, they took the trouble to assign his mom, Brooke Astor, a hypothetical date of death --...
WEB LINK EYED IN QUEENS SLAY
Cops are investigating whether a man slaughtered in his Queens apartment met his killer via the Internet. Michael Pecora, 38, of Forest Hills, was found with three stab wounds Wednesday...
JOEL'S WIFE NIXED THE 'OLDIES'
Billy Joel was just too much of a codger for his 27-year-old wife. "It really was just an age thing," a source close to Katie Lee Joel said yesterday of...
CRIME GETTING EXPELLED AT BIG APPLE SCHOOLS
Crime dropped significantly in the city's schools over the last year, according to data released yesterday. Major crimes -- homicide, rape, assault, robbery, burglary, grand larceny and grand larceny auto...
METRO-NORTH $LAP
Metro-North officials tried to cover up and retaliate against four railroad workers injured on the job, a federal investigation ruled. The MTA, Metro-North's parent agency, now has to pay each...
NYPD HIRES RACE-RELATION EXPERT
In the wake of last month's "friendly fire" slaying of Police Officer Omar Edwards in Harlem, the NYPD has turned to a noted academic to reduce racial bias in the...
UNHOLY REQUEST
Jail-chaplain Rabbi Leib Glanz used a Correction Department letterhead to beg a judge for "maximum leniency" for the ex-fugitive con man who hosted an elaborate bar mitzvah in a lower...
CBS PREPS TRIBUTES FOR 'GRAVELY ILL' CRONKITE
Walter Cronkite -- once dubbed "America's Most Trusted Man" -- is gravely ill, CBS insiders say. Network officials declined to comment last night when asked about its legendary former anchor,...
WATER HAZARD!
Driving rains turned the start of yesterday's US Open into a flop. But that didn't stop one New Jersey golf fan from making a splash. Mark Scully, of Rochelle Park,...
'ORDINARY GUY' : THIS IS MY DUTY
Among the demonstrators who joined yesterday's protest in Tehran was a 29-year-old engineering graduate who detailed the dramatic event -- but only on the condition that he not be identified...
$LAP SHOT AT PUCK SUCKERS
A golf-resort developer put nearly two dozen NHL stars on ice -- taking millions they had invested with him and blowing it on parties packed with porn stars, hookers and...
KIN KEPT 'RAPE' SECRET FROM O'CONNOR
WILMINGTON, Del. -- John Cardinal O'Connor went to his grave never knowing that his great-nephew was allegedly among the many victims of sexual abuse by the Roman Catholic Church. Richard...
DINGALING BROTHERS
The circus came to town last night, and Mayor Bloomberg, dubbing government the "second greatest show on earth," couldn't help tossing a zinger at New York's do-nothing Senate. "Nothing comes...
MEDICAID BIG IN BRIBE BUST
A supervisor at the New York state Medicaid Inspector General's Office was busted yesterday for allegedly offering to make a Bronx pharmacy's debt to the agency disappear in exchange for...
HILL ELBOW OP DUE AFTER FALL
WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton expects to have surgery soon to repair a broken elbow she suffered in a fall in the State Department garage. Department spokesman...
MTA RUSHES TO UPDATE DISPENSERS
MTA officials are in a mad dash to update cash slots on the more than 1,600 MetroCard machines throughout the city because they soon won't be high-tech enough to spot...
'BANNED' GROUP GETS CITY PORK
The city is struggling through tough times, but you'd never know it from the way the City Council is doling out pork -- including $85,000 earmarked for a group Mayor...
DEATH IN COCKPIT
It was a routine flight -- except for the death in the cockpit. A veteran Continental Airlines pilot died yesterday while flying a Boeing 777 over the North Atlantic. His...
NYC SITES HIT 'MARK'
ALBANY -- Three Queens synagogues, a Brooklyn bank building, a Manhattan church and a rehabbed Manhattan tenement are among 24 New York landmarks recommended for the State and National Registers...
ROPE GAL OFF TO JAIL IN SLAYING OF KINKY TIE-COON
GENEVA -- While dressed in a latex suit and tethered to a chair, one of France's richest men was slain by his Swiss mistress -- all because he called his...
FITTING TRIBUTE
Relatives of 9/11 victims and first responders will sign steel beams that will be used to build the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at Ground Zero. The signings of...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Hmm, how do they enforce this law? Brooksville, Fla., has a new dress code that requires city employees to wear underwear. The City Council passed the law, 4-1, with the...
SUNDAY FINISH DOUBTFUL AFTER PLAY HALTED EARLY
The star of this U.S. Open was supposed to be Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, an unexpected champion or the venerable Black Course at Bethpage.US OPEN TEE TIMESFIRST ROUND SCORESGALLERY: US...
DELUGE IS A 'SUPER'-SIZED HEADACHE
APPARENTLY, the golf gods can't overrule Mother Nature. For if they could, they would have dealt Craig Currier a better fate.US OPEN TEE TIMESFIRST ROUND SCORESGALLERY: US Open FloodedGALLERY: US...
BONEHEAD POLICY SOAKS FANS
THIS is a column I'd rather not have to write because I'd hope people would have more sense, decency, smarts and -- heaven forbid -- a conscience.US OPEN TEE TIMESFIRST...
YANKEES SOAK FANS, THEN THROW IN TOWEL
WHEN Joe Girardi went home Wednesday night and turned on the replay of the Yankees' loss to the Nationals, sure enough there was Chien-Ming Wang giving up the same three...
YANKS NEARLY WASHED OUT, THEN WHITEWASHED
Manager Joe Girardi wanted more from his Yankees on this homestand. And he expected more from his hitters. Nearly everything was thwarted for the Yankees last night in a remarkable...
SPORTS SHORTS
NFL: Stallworth suspended indefinitely Browns receiver Donte' Stallworth was indefinitely suspended by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell yesterday, two days after he began a 30-day jail sentence for killing a pedestrian...
BLUE JAYS SWEEP PHILLIES
Rod Barajas led off the ninth inning with a pinch-hit, tiebreaking homer and the Blue Jays beat the Phillies 8-7 yesterday in Philadelphia to complete a three-game sweep. Raul Chavez...
'JOE BUCK LIVE' GOT WHAT IT ASKED FOR
FUNNY, how TV folks are so often surprised by the easily predictable. Exactly which Artie Lange did HBO Sports think it booked for the debut of "Joe Buck Live"? Artie...
LONE OPEN TITLE TOPS PALMER'S LIST
Nobody knows U.S. Open heartbreak like Arnold Palmer. The King played in 32 Opens, but only once did he emerge victorious. Thirteen times, Arnie finished in the top 10, and...
BRAZIL BLANKS U.S. AT WORLD CUP TUNEUP
PRETORIA, South Africa -- If this was a dress rehearsal for next year's World Cup, the United States showed it's far from ready. The U.S. was hammered for the second...
SNOW HAS MADE UP MIND ON TOP PICK
A blue Matt Duchene Islanders jersey sits in an office at Nassau Coliseum. A sign that the Islanders are going to make the forward the top pick in Friday's draft?...
DINEEN MAY BE A DEVILS TARGET
Add another name to the list of possible candidates to succeed Brent Sutter as Devils coach: former Flyer captain, Whaler and Hurricane Kevin Dineen. Dineen has coached the AHL's Portland...
HOPES ARE CY HIGH FOR BROOKLYN
After finishing last season with a 45-30 record and missing the playoffs by two games, the Brooklyn Cyclones look to return to the playoffs this year for the first time...
LIBERTY TRY TO PUT ONE IN WIN COLUMN
The last time the Liberty opened 0-4 was the disastrous 2006 season, after which general manager Carol Blazejowski decided to blow up the team and rebuild. Who knows what the...
FARREN HANGS TOUGH AFTER 3 HOLES
Sean Farren, the head pro at The Creek Club on Long Island, was on the U.S. Open leaderboard yesterday at even par through three holes -- one shot off the...
WILD START FOR TIGER
There was calamity on the first hole for Tiger Woods yesterday, but he survived the early hiccup in the opening round of his defense of the U.S. Open title. Woods'...
COUGHLIN WANTS GIANTS TO ERASE 2008
Tom Coughlin took a hefty 18 minutes for his "Goodbye for the summer" speech to the Giants yesterday, figuring he could hold the interest of his team that long but...
USGA'S KINDER, NOT GENTLER
The rains came, and this time the USGA was ready for them. The skies opened up yesterday and dumped more than an inch on Bethpage Black, and, unlike 2002, the...
HONDO TRIES TRIBE
The A's proved they're not the genuine article, getting nipped in LA to slash Hondo's bankroll to 320 foys. Today, he'll deviate from the norm and give cheers to Cliffy...
COACH K TO MAKE DECISION ON TEAM USA JOB IN LATE JULY
It was Mike Krzyzewski as you rarely get to see him. He was on the of verge of gushing when he met E Street Band guitarist and former "Sopranos" star...
BREHAUT DARES TO DREAM
MOST of them toil in obscurity, never knowing what it is to cash a million-dollar winner's check, or to fly their own plane, or to live behind cast-iron gates. Most...
SAVING PARR WASN'T SO EASY
Sharing the lead at the U.S. Open, even after only three holes, is a far cry for 26-year-old Andrew Parr, hospitalized from a stroke less than two years ago. "I...
LINCOLN STAR STEPHENSON IN ISIAH'S SIGHTS
MIGHT Lance Stephenson be succeeding Stephon Marbury as Zeke's newest freak? While in Orlando, an on-campus source informed me the Lincoln HS whiz had a sleepover a couple of weeks...
GIRARDI SEES IMPROVEMENT BY WANG
Chien-Ming Wang won't be demoted to the bullpen. And since yesterday's series finale between the Yankees and Nationals wasn't rained out, he won't have his turn in the rotation skipped...
HAVE A FLUKE? NO. GO FISH! HAVE A STRIPER?
STRIPED bass, sea bass, bluefish and porgies will have to make up for the absence of fluke fishing for the next two weeks. They should be able to fill in...
WEEKEND HOT PICKS IN ENTERTAINMENT
Friday, June 19, to Sunday, June 21PJs FOR PEACE Want to give peace a chance? Show up at Central Park for the 40th annual Bed-In, celebrating John Lennon and Yoko...
PEREZ MAKES STRIDES IN THREE-INNING STINT
BALTIMORE -- Oliver Perez is allegedly getting closer to rejoining the Mets' rotation. CHAT REWINDBOX SCOREMETS' TOP 10 PROSPECTS Perez, who has been on the disabled list since May 7,...
MAINE SUFFERS REHAB SETBACK
BALTIMORE -- The injury hits just keep coming for the bruised and battered Mets. Yesterday was par for the course when the Mets revealed that right-hander John Maine would not...
BAILOUT FALLOUT
THE next time he sees President Obama, Mayor Bloomberg should lay out how the White House's auto-industry bailouts have hit hard at US financial markets -- and so hurt New...
GROOMED TO DECEIVE
THE ISSUE: Two men who fooled the city clerk's office into issuing them a marriage license. *** Hakim Nelson, a male posing as a female, married male Jason Stenson ("Wedding...
DEMOCRACY IN TEHRAN: A HOPE OR A FANTASY?
THE ISSUE: Iranian election results, which supposedly showed Ahmadinejad as the winner. *** Promoting democracy is the only way to assure that Mideast countries don't attack other democracies or their...
CUBS SEEK NEW OFFER
Talks to sell the storied Chicago Cubs baseball team have reopened with a rival bidding group, and are continuing alongside negotiations with the original Ricketts family buyers, sources familiar with...
SHOWDOWN AT PRAYER CALL
THREE days of mourning protests will culminate in marches across Iran tomorrow. But the real showdown may come today -- as both sides face each other at the traditional Friday...
STERN NOT 'SIRIUS' FOR IPOD
Sirius XM Radio, the unprofitable satellite broadcaster, said Howard Stern's talk show won't be available on the service it introduced today for Apple Inc.'s iPhone and iPod Touch. Stern's broadcasts...
OFFICE $PACE NEARS BOTTOM
Midtown Manhattan office rents have dropped an average of 28 percent in asking price from the peak last year and the market may be near its bottom, according to a...
BUSINESS BRIEFS
Looking up The index of US lead ing economic indica tors rose in May for a second consecutive month and a regional factory gauge climbed more than forecast in June,...
ITALY ASKS US TO VERIFY SEIZED BONDS ARE LEGIT
MILAN -- Italy has asked US authorities to check the authenticity of what appear to be US government bonds worth $134 billion seized near the Swiss border, a senior Italian...
A RETAIL RUMPUS
The battle to control Children's Place is devolving into something of a playground fight. Former CEO Ezra Dabah -- whose family owns 22 percent of shares in the kids clothing...
O'S IRAN OPPORTUNITY
PRESIDENT Obama has more reason for his cautious approach to the crisis in Iran than his critics concede -- but he's missing an opportunity even on his own terms. Obama...
CITICORP'S CFO A CROWD-PLEASER
Citigroup boss Vikram Pandit's trusted lieutenant and right-hand man, Chief Administrative Officer Don Callahan, is losing his grip on the pieces of the troubled banking giant that he controls to...
APOLOGIZE, MR. PANETTA
The CIA is backing away from Director Leon Panetta's slanderous assertion that former Vice President Dick Cheney's criticism of the Obama administration suggests he's "wishing that this country would be...
WILL PLAX CATCH A BREAK?
Suddenly, the criminal case against Plaxico Burress is heating up. And all it took was a column by The Post's Andrea Peyser reporting that a faction in retiring Manhattan DA...
CITY HALL'S SOUND BUDGET
It's getting worse: The number of job less New Yorkers swelled to 802,400 last month -- the highest in 33 years. And those figures, released yesterday, come a day after...
FINAL 'NAILS' AT AUCTION
THE financial woes affecting former Mets star and media- mogul wannabe Lenny "Nails" Dykstra are beginning to hurt him where he lives. The crown jewel of the baseball player-turned-magazine-publisher's empire,...
TRADE THAT CLUNKER
Your old clunker can bring as much as a $4,500 check from Uncle Sam if you dump it to buy a new car -- so long as it's not another...
GEITHNER FIGHTS FOR WIDER FED ROLE
A day after unveiling what some have called Washington's most sweeping financial regulatory reform since the Great Depression, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner found himself on the defensive, particularly about plans...
HEALTHSOUTH EX-CEO LOSES $2.9B CIVIL CASE
HealthSouth Corp. founder Richard Scrushy, acquitted in 2005 on criminal charges of directing an accounting fraud, was found liable for $2.9 billion in a civil trial in Birmingham, Ala. "Scrushy...
NEW GLOBE VOTE SET
BOSTON -- The Boston Globe's largest union has scheduled a contract ratification vote, even though it has yet to reach a new tentative agreement with management. In a letter yesterday...
GOOGLE IN DEAL WITH BRIN'S KIN
Google Inc. loves 23andMe Inc., a biotechnology startup conceived by co-founder Sergey Brin's wife. In its latest showing of financial affinity, Google disclosed yesterday that it has invested another $2.6...
VIVENDI WINS $1.9M IN RETRIAL
Vivendi SA's Universal Music Group and other record labels were awarded $1.92 million in the retrial of a Minnesota woman accused of swapping music over the Kazaa Internet service. The...
CEOS FLYING BLIND
Not even a TARP could ground these corporate fly boys. Ex-Citigroup boss Sandy Weill, Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack and Bank of America chief Ken Lewis are among a handful...
WHAT A KIRK-OFF!
WILLIAM Shatner boldly went wacko on Wednesday's "Tonight Show" -- flipping host Conan O'Brien the bird and simulating urinating and masturbation. Shatner, on the show to promote his new book...
ARCHIE'S DAD IN SEX RAP
BABY-faced David Archuleta may be a wholesome poster boy, but his father definitely isn't. James Jeffrey Archuleta, the notoriously overbearing stage dad to the seventh season "American Idol" runner-up, was...
KNOT SO BAD
SHAMELESSLY derivative, contrived and predictable, "The Proposal" is nonetheless a crowd-pleasing romantic comedy -- the paying audience at a screening I attended laughed their heads off. Chemistry counts for a...
'GREY'S' T.R. KNIGHT: 'LEAVING NOT AN EASY DECISION'
KATHERINE Heigl will return to "Grey's Anatomy" next season, but without co-star T.R. Knight. "Leaving 'Grey's Anatomy' was not an easy decision for me to make," says Knight in a...
BROADWAY
"ACCENT ON YOUTH": * There's no accent of any kind in this flat comedy starring a badly directed David Hyde Pierce. Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, 261 W. 47th St.; 212-239-6200....
OFF-BROADWAY
"CORALINE": ** Stephin Merritt, David Greenspan, Jayne Houdyshell: How could this musical not be good? And yet it lacks any sense of stage magic. Lucille Lortel Theatre, 121 Christopher St.;...
POP, ROCK, FOLK
IAN HUNTER: Despite popular belief, Ian Hunter -- not his Mott the Hoople bandmate David Bowie -- sang the lead on "All the Young Dudes." Hunter also has loads of...
JAZZ
BIRDLAND: Singer Kurt Elling leads his quartet today and tomorrow at 9:30 and 11 p.m. 315 W. 44th St.; 212-581-3080. BLUE NOTE: Singer Rachelle Ferrell performs from her newly released...
CLASSICAL
AVERY FISHER HALL: Lorin Maazel leads the New York Philharmonic in performing his original work "Monaco Fanfares" tomorrow at 8 p.m. Lincoln Center; 212- 875-5656. CARNEGIE HALL: The AM Chamber...
CABARET
CAFE CARLYLE: Actress-singer Debbie Reynolds entertains tonight and tomorrow night at 8:45 and 10:45, and Tuesday through Thursday at 8:45 p.m. 35 E. 76th St.; 212-744-1600. FEINSTEIN'S: Michael Feinstein and...
DANCE
JOYCE THEATER: Philadelphia's Phildanco company performs works including hip-hop choreographer Rennie Harris' "Philadelphia Experiment," tonight at 8, tomorrow at 2 and 8 p.m., and Sunday at 2 and 7:30 p.m....
FILM
FILM FORUM: John Boulting's 1947 British thriller "Brighton Rock" screens daily through Thursday. 209 W. Houston St., west of Sixth Avenue; 212-727-8110. IFC CENTER: Stanley Kubrick's "Killer's Kiss" (1955) airs...
PREVIEWS
"TWELFTH NIGHT": Anne Hathaway heads the cast of the Bard's comedy in the Public Theater's free Shakespeare in the Park. Delacorte Theater in Central Park; 212-539- 8750. Opens Thursday.
THE NARROWS
Ayoung photography student tries to es cape his mobbed-up Bay Ridge surroundings in the sub-Scorsese melodrama "The Narrows." Kevin Zegers plays the shutterbug who, to pay for his classes, gets...
THE END OF THE LINE
THE documentary "The End of the Line" delivers sobering news: If something isn't done about overfishing, the world's supply of marine food will be exhausted by the middle of the...
STARR REPORT
'Show' biz, week 2Conan O'Brien squeaked by David Letterman last week in total viewers -- but the demos told another story. Week 2 of Conan vs. Dave saw O'Brien's "Tonight...
THINGS AREN'T TOTALLY AT EASE DOWN THIS ROAD
FORGET about the hype: It's not R&B siren Ashanti, she of the wondrous '02 hit "Foolish," who's the major draw in the Encores! revival of "The Wiz" -- it's the...
THOU SHALT NOT SEE IT
'YEAR One" is nowhere near as funny as the ancient- civilization movies I saw in high school: "Life of Brian," "History of the World Part I," "Caligula." Its script isn't...
ANNIE HOLLOW
Here are excerpts from Lou Lumenick's April 23 review, which appeared when this movie opened the Tribeca Film Festival: 'THIS is not the feel- good movie of the year," Larry...
DEAD-NAZI PLOTZI A REAL SCREAM
THE hills are alive with the sound of skiers screaming for their lives as they battle a battalion of Nazi zombies left over from World War II. It's not that...
FROM 'HAIR' TO ETERNITY
SOMEONE is killing hair styl ists in DC and then dese crating the corpses by doing the unforgivable: giving them bad haircuts! Good thing fashion reporter Lacey Smithsonian (no relation...
LOOKING FOR 'AMERICA'S WORST DRIVER'
WELCOME to TV's first real ity show where it's good to be eliminated. "The Streets of America: The Search for America's Worst Driver," premiering next year on the Travel Channel,...
QUIRKY, INTRIGUING AND FUNNY FOR JUST '$9.99'
FEW films so easily exceed their goals as the stop-motion animation film "$9.99" -- which is billed as supplying "slightly less than $10 worth about the meaning of life." Based...
RIGHT TURN ON B'WAY?
THERE'S no shortage of shows about cultural and political issues in New York these days. "Billy Elliot," set during the British miners' strike of 1984, champions the working man while...
'STUNNING' DAZZLES
NOT to boil everything down to money -- though money plays a part in "Stunning" -- but it's hard to believe that a ticket to this wonderful show costs only...
UNDER OUR SKIN
WEATHER permitting, I was planning to spend the weekend strolling through the woods of Woodstock with my trusty dog, Keiko. Then I watched "Under Our Skin." Now I'm not sure...
FAIRS, FESTS, ETC...
TIMES SQUARE EXPO: A fair on Seventh Avenue between 47th and 57th streets tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. THE TURTLE BAY FESTIVAL: On Lexington Avenue between 43rd and...
HUFF'S HIT OFF K-ROD LIFTS ORIOLES OVER METS 5-4
Aubrey Huff drove in the winning run with a ninth-inning single off Francisco Rodriguez, capping a two-run rally that carried the Baltimore Orioles past the New York Mets 5-4 Thursday...
Mejia impresses again; Holt out with ankle injury
Jenrry Mejia has continued to impress with Double-A Binghamton. In his third start since being promoted from High-A St. Lucie, Mejia allowed two runs on eight hits in five innings,...
STAMMEN, NATIONALS REALLY DAMPEN YANKEES' DAY
Craig Stammen and the Washington Nationals really dampened the New York Yankees' day. After waiting out a 5 1/2-hour rain delay at the start, Stammen earned his first major league...
GOLF RESORT DEVELOPER BILKED NHL STARS: SUIT
A golf-resort developer put nearly two dozen NHL stars on ice -- taking millions they invested with him and blowing it on parties packed with porn stars, hookers and his...