July 10, 2009
Maine throws pain free in PSL
Following Angel Pagan's return from the disabled list, the Mets got further upbeat news from the injury front today when John Maine threw a side session without pain in Port...
CITY RESPONDS TO SUPERFUND ADVOCATES
In anticipation of the July 8th close of the public comment period for the designation of the Gowanus Canal as a Superfund site, City Hall was given the opportunity to...
RAQUEL Z. RIVERA BOOK DOCUMENTS PR HISTORY
Raquel Z. Rivera knows the importance of documenting history. As a researcher at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, she's served as a gatekeeper of Boricua history....
Church traded for Francoeur
From MIKE PUMA(UPDATED 2.0) In what GM Omar Minaya described as a shake-up move for his struggling team, the Mets traded outfielder Ryan Church to the Braves today for outfielder...
BACK FROM: Tallinn, Estonia
Now, I'm not even Estonian, but I must admit to a lump in the throat on a cool, overcast morning last week as the gargantuan green-and-orange Tallink ferry pulled into...
Devils lose out on Morrison
APThe Washington Capitals have found a possible second-line center for next season, signing free agent Brendan Morrison to a one-year, $1.5 million contract on Friday.The Devils were interested in bringing...
BUSH SURVEILLANCE WENT BEYOND WIRETAPPING
WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration authorized secret surveillance activities that still have not been made public, according to a new government report that questions the legal basis for the unprecedented...
SOME LANES REOPEN ON THROGS NECK BRIDGE AFTER FIRE
Interim Executive Director of the MTA Helena Williams said she expected the majority of the Throgs Neck Bridge's lanes to be open by rush hour Friday evening after an early...
OBAMA LANDS IN GHANA
ACCRA -- President Barack Obama flew into Ghana on Friday on his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa since taking office as the first African American president of the United States....
Former QB J.J. Jones dies in fire
Seattle TV station KCPQ reports former Jets quarterback J.J. Jones was killed in a house fire.Jones, one of the first African-American quarterbacks in the NFL, played for the Jets in...
BOB DOLE HOSPITALIZED AFTER LEG SURGERY
WASHINGTON -- Former GOP presidential candidate Bob Dole remained hospitalized Friday following leg surgery performed after he initially sought medical treatment for heart problems. The former Senate majority leader has...
Pagan activated, Evans to Buffalo
The Mets' disabled-list turnstile whirled again today as outfielder Angel Pagan (pictured) was activated and Nick Evans was sent back to Triple-A Buffalo to make room on the roster. Pagan,...
MICKELSON WON'T PLAY BRITISH OPEN
LUSS, Scotland -- Phil Mickelson will skip the British Open so he can be with his wife as she starts her recovery from breast cancer, ending the longest active streak...
Game 85: Reds at Mets
(UPDATED) Losers of 10 of their past 13 games, the Mets open their final series before the All-Star break tonight at Citi Field when Fernando Nieve takes on Bronson Arroyo...
BASEBALL PLAYERS FEAR 'HAUNTED' HOTEL IN MILWAUKEE
MILWAUKEE -- First Carlos Gomez heard voices. Then he watched his iPod go haywire after he got out of the shower, sending him scrambling for the lobby without stopping to...
Werth replaces Beltran on NL team
Phillies manager Charlie Manuel added insult to the Mets' injury situation today by naming Philadelphia right fielder Jayson Werth to the NL All-Star team to take the place of Carlos...
SCENIC OWLS HEAD OVERLOOK GETS REHAB
In the shadow of a generations-old birch tree, the long-awaited renewal of Owls Head Park was celebrated. With the 69th Street Pier sticking its metaphorical toe into the water in...
MAYOR DETAILS CAMPAIGN FINANCES
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's record-shattering campaign has spent another $18 million, for a total of more than $36 million this year. The campaign released the billionaire's latest spending...
No All-Star bonuses for Yankees
Maybe the Yankees expect at those salaries, they should make the All-Star team.Derek Jeter ($21.6 million), Mark Teixeira ($20.6 million) and Mariano Rivera ($15 million) do not receive a bonus...
More Bruno Victims Speak!
In last Sunday's paper, I spoke to a number of victims who were duped by Sacha Baron Cohen into appearing in "Bruno." Now two more have spoken out: Nicky and...
PARK IT: SeaWorld Orlando's Manta
We just got off SeaWorld Orlando's newest mega-coaster, Manta, and it's a good one. A few years back, the park was the kind of place you might send your granny...
Hill picks Suns, not Knicks
By MARC BERMANSo much for the Garden's allure. Here's a double whammy:Grant Hill is staying with the Suns, largely because Steve Nash is close to a contract extension.Hill's agent, Lon...
NEW ERA DAWNING FOR DUST BOWL
Under foot, the loose sand shifted. As a group of dignitaries picked up scoops of earth with waiting shovels, they marked what cannot help but be perceived as the dawning...
Hill picks Suns, not Knicks
By MARC BERMANSo much for the Garden's allure. Here's a double whammy:Grant Hill is staying with the Suns, largely because Steve Nash is close to a contract extension.Hill's agent, Lon...
BROOKLYN BODEGA OWNER GETS 5 YEARS IN PRISON FOR HAMMER SMASH
A Brooklyn bodega owner who shattered the skull of a teen he thought was robbing him was sentenced to five years in jail this morning. Salah Ahmed battered Bunkless Bovian...
SAM ISRAEL MAY FACE HARSHER SENTENCE
WHITE PLAINS -- A federal judge says he may give hedge fund swindler Samuel Israel III a prison sentence harsher than federal guidelines. Israel fled last year rather than reporting...
Angels hurting with Yankees in town
MLB.com reports the Angels have placed both Torii Hunter and Vladimir Guerrero on the disabled list as the Yankees arrive to start a three-game series."I didn't want to go on...
HELENE RUIZ AND URBAN INDIVIDUALISTS COME TO W-BURG
Arist Helene Ruiz, founder of "The Urban Individualists" artist collective, is coming back to the Williamsburg Music Center (367 Berry Street) this month, this time to curate a show of...
PLEA DEAL IN KISSEL SLAY CASE
One of two men charged in the 2006 slaying of a wealthy Greenwich developer pleaded guilty this afternoon to reduced charges of conspiracy to commit murder and manslaughter. Leonard Trujillo,...
BOSTON MOBSTER 'RIFLEMAN' FLEMMI DESCRIBES KILLING
BOSTON -- New England mobster Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi on Friday described watching a cohort strangle his girlfriend as a "very traumatic moment" -- but then admitted he pulled out...
Best Nicknames In Sports
Just a reminder - I'm on Twitter, complete with a fresh new logo. Hope you come follow me.Friday's here, so we go nicknames - as in, the best in sports,...
Devils sign backup goalie Danis
The Devils signed former Islanders goalie Yann Danis, giving the 28-year-old a shot at backing up Martin Brodeur.Danis went 10-17-3 with a 2.86 goals-against in 31 appearances with the Islanders...
Mad Mel's Puppet Show
"Der Fuhrer,'' as Mad Mel Gibson is referred to in "Bruno,'' has signed up for "The Beaver,'' the first directing project for his "Maverick'' co-star Jodie Foster since "Home For...
Wade denies rift with Riley
Dwyane Wade, perhaps the free-agent consolation prize if LeBron James stays in Cleveland, says his decision to re-sign with the Heat won't be influenced by a bad relationship with Pat...
Phillies watch Pedro throw again
ESPN.com reports that Phillies brass in the Dominican Republic watched Pedro Martinez pitch a simulated game today.The former Mets star seems to be inching closer to signing with their archrivals.ESPN.com...
Jacobs on Romo: Not that effective
Brandon Jacobs dismissed the abilities of Cowboys QB Tony Romo yesterday on ESPN 1050 Radio.Here's what Jacobs had to say when host Brandon Tierney asked about the celebrity quarterback: "No,...
PARIS HILTON DEFENDS MOVIE PROMOTION
MIAMI -- Paris Hilton repeatedly fussed with her hair and makeup in a federal courtroom Friday, sported six-inch stiletto heels and a black dress and amused the judge with a...
MCNAIR'S GIRLFRIEND DISTRAUGHT OVER LOVE
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- About two weeks before Steve McNair's girlfriend killed the former star quarterback and then herself, she poured out her troubles during a chance encounter with a customer...
OBAMA MEETS WITH POPE BENEDICT XVI
VATICAN CITY -- President Barack Obama sat down with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican on Friday for a meeting in which frank but constructive talks were expected between two...
NY TAX PROTESTERS DUE IN COURT
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A western New York couple who claimed they were immune from paying income tax because they renounced their U.S. citizenship are facing prison time. Patricia O'Connor and...
Diamond Star Halo Vintage Online
Libby Callaway, formerly the fashion editor here at the Post, is one of my favorite people in the whole wide world. She's also the vintage queen of Nashville, TN --...
NY COURT TO DECIDE LEGALITY OF LT. GOVERNOR APPOINTMENT
MINEOLA, N.Y. -- A judge will decide whether it was legal for New York Gov. David Paterson to appoint a lieutenant governor. Arguments are to be heard Friday in state...
Box Office: 'Bruno' On Top?
Kyle awards "Beth Cooper'' three stars, but mostly the critical reception has been scathing, racking up an alarming score of 11 on RT. Gitesh thinks this flick will tank with...
AIG TRIES TO GET OBAMA APPROVAL ON BONUSES
NEW YORK (AP) -- American International Group Inc. is consulting with the federal government about its plans to pay millions of dollars in retention incentives and bonuses, a person familiar...
SHOVELâ'READY GREEN SPACE
Mayor Michael Bloomberg joined scores of public officials and community members to break ground at Williamsburg's newest park, Bushwick Inlet, this week, though many community leaders believe the Bloomberg administration...
MAN GORED TO DEATH IN RUNNING OF THE BULLS
PAMPLONA, Spain -- A charging bull gored a young Spanish man to death Friday at Pamplona's San Fermin festival, the first such fatality in nearly 15 years. Nine others were...
The Daily Whacks, Friday Edition
You can count me among the tweetin' Twitterers (or is that the Twitterin' tweeters?) now: http://twitter.com/MikeVacc*******Hung," the new HBO series, is very much worth your while, even if it'll take...
Coverage in The Post
Livan Hernandez left the Mets with no chance to compete yet again Thursday night, prompting Jerry Manuel to say the journeyman's rotation spot could be in danger after an 11-2...
'Watchmen': The Long Version
Watchmen DVD (Warner Home Video) July 21 brings us the DVD and Blu-Ray release of "Watchmen: The Director's Cut," which apparently runs three hours and ten minutes. (I have it,...
OBAMA: FULL ECONOMIC RECOVERY IS A WAYS OFF
L'AQUILA, Italy -- President Barack Obama said Friday the world apparently has averted economic collapse but "full recovery is still a ways off." Obama, speaking at the end of the...
'Hangover,' You're No 'Smokey and the Bandit'
Phillips agreed to work for scale in exchange for equity participation and Hollywood continues to be the one industry that pays talent as though they were investors. "The Hangover 2"...
Melancon called up
The Yankees are recalling pitcher Mark Melancon up from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.David Robertson, who walked three Twins yesterday, two with the bases loaded, likely will be sent down, though the Yankees...
GM EMERGES FROM BANKRUPTCY
A leaner General Motors arose on Friday, making an unusually quick exit from bankruptcy with ambitions of making money and building cars people are eager to buy. Once the world's...
REPORT: JACKO POPPED 10 XANAX PILLS A DAY
LOS ANGELES -- "The King of Pop" was a pill-popper. Michael Jackson took more than 10 Xanax pills every night -- demanding that his employees get the prescription medicine under...
FIRE SNARLS TRAFFIC ON THROGS NECK BRIDGE
The southbound roadway of the Throgs Neck bridge reopened this afternoon after a fire closed both lanes this morning. The blaze began on a contractor's scaffolding under the bridge just...
3 UP: RED SOX, METS WOES, YANK TRIP
Yes, I am on Twitter.1. Since spring training I have believed that two clubs would come out of the AL East as playoff teams: The Red Sox and either the...
BIFF! WHAM! POW!
Superman and Batman took on New York's Finest last night in an epic Crossroads of the World battle that left the Caped Crusader in cuffs. Stunned Times Square tourists and...
PINEAPPLE JUICE
FOR a show he thought would "maybe" last a sea son, "SpongeBob SquarePants" creator Steven Hillenburg still can't explain the show's popularity as it celebrates its 10th anniversary. "It's an...
NBC HUNTS TERRORISTS
NBC's getting in on the terrorist hunting busi ness. "The Wanted," premiering July 20, is a "follow-doc" which sends four intelligence gathering experts around the world, attempting to bring accused...
A BUNCH OF BRONX CHEERS FOR FLIP-FLOPPING ESPADA
Pedro Espada Jr.'s constituents can't figure out why their state senator keeps changing sides in the battle for Albany -- and were angry over the lawmaker's conduct. Bronx resident Dave...
TAXPAYERS FOOT $5M WASTE OF TIME
ALBANY -- It could go down as the most expensive circus in state history. The Senate's monthlong descent into chaos wasted more than $5 million in state tax dollars and...
MAYOR WILL GET CONTROL
Now that the stalemate is broken, supporters of mayoral control said yesterday that legislation extending the school-governance law should pass the state Senate soon -- unless Democratic power brokers let...
LING: SIS SEEKS PARDON
The celebrity sister of a journalist sentenced to 12 years in a North Korean labor camp said yesterday her sibling is seeking a pardon as her only hope for freedom....
TIME FOR NEW YORKERS TO MAKE ALBANY PAY
Fred Dicker accurately describes the sorry state of affairs in Albany ("Albany, I Give Up," PostScript, July 5). The state Legislature has become a dysfunctional and ineffective body. All this...
MONKEY DIET WORTH APING
CHICAGO -- A 20-year study shows a reduced-calorie diet decreases diseases and extends life in monkeys -- and researchers see it working on humans. Rhesus monkeys on the strict diet...
MIKE BACKS SHOT COPS
The NYPD officers wounded after opening fire on a raging pit bull in an Upper East Side housing project acted appropriately, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday. "The police did what they...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Queens * Cops are searching for as many as three thugs who have participated in a monthlong spree of 13 armed robberies at stores in Queens and Brooklyn. The robbers...
IRISH HAIL 'MARY' TREE
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Thousands of Irish Catholics have flocked this week to a County Limerick church to pray at the stump of a recently cut willow that many observers say...
MYSTERY OVER JERSEY POLICE DOG'S DEATH
MOUNT HOLLY, NJ -- New Jersey's SPCA is awaiting results of an autopsy as it investigates how a police dog died in a vehicle. Patton was a 5-year-old, explosive-detecting golden...
CALIF. QUAKING OVER TREMORS
LOS ANGELES -- Scientists have detected a spike in underground rumblings on a section of California's San Andreas Fault that produced a magnitude-7.8 earthquake in 1857. Researchers at the University...
SOTO TRIAL BY FIREMAN
WASHINGTON -- Republicans announced yesterday that they plan to call a white Connecticut firefighter to testify against Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor during her Senate confirmation hearings, which open Monday....
SKY CAPITAL HIT BRITS
The majority of the victims in the alleged "boiler-room" fraud run by Wall Street trader Ross Mandell were mom-and-pop investors from the UK who were targeted by aggressive cold-calling brokers,...
BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE: BILLY'S LAST TWO ADS TO AIR
Billy Mays is gone, but his message will live on. Mays' family has given permission to air the last two commercials the pitchman with the booming voice made before his...
MEMORIAL HITS NEW WTC SNAG
Commemorating the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks at a new memorial could be imperiled by a dispute between the Port Authority and developer Larry Silverstein, the memorial's chief warned...
BUSINESS BRIEFS
Jobless The Labor Department said that initial claims for state unemployment in surance fell 52,000, the largest drop since Decem ber, to a much lower- than-expected seasonally adjusted 565,000 in...
DICTIONARY WORDS UP
The Merriam-Webster's dictionary yesterday recognized 100 new words including frenemy (a despised rival with whom you pretend to be friends) and staycation (a vacation spent at home or nearby). Merriam-Webster...
'ROSY APOCALYPSE'
BARACK Obama spent all of 2008 running against the sputtering economy, and warned earlier this year of a crisis "we may not be able to reverse." Yet, as the unemployment...
PLAYED FOR A DOPE
Actor Billy Baldwin let a homeless man live on his Rockland County estate, only to see him arrested on heroin charges. Baldwin told cops he offered to let Jimmy Parks,...
THE HEALTH CARE PEOPLE REALLY WANT
ON Wednesday, representatives of the nation's hospitals gathered with Vice President Joe Biden at the White House, solemnly vowing to help defray health-care costs. The hospitals agreed to give up...
MOSCOW STONEWALL
AMONG the benefits from President Obama's effort to "reset" relations with Russia, we're told, is that the Kremlin will join us in pressuring rogue nations from seeking to build nuclear...
THE WRONG LESSONS OF A BOTCHED WAR
ROBERT McNamara's death this week reig nited a debate that couldn't be more timely: Should Americans stand up to aggression, hostility and threats that could jeopardize their basic liberties, perhaps...
U SEXPLOITED ME: SUIT
A professional fund-raiser for the Binghamton University Athletics Department filed a sex-harassment suit yesterday alleging that her bosses insisted she offer "sex-related services" to potential donors. Elizabeth Williams, 27, said...
CITADEL SUES EX-TRADER
Ken Griffin's Citadel Investment Group is suing former trader Misha Malyshev and two other former employees, alleging that their formation of a new trading firm violated a non-compete agreement they...
BONUSES ARE BACK AT FLAILING AIG
American International Group can't seem to do anything right in its born-again life -- as its just-consolidated stock steadily loses value, news comes that the beleaguered company is preparing to...
GM PREPARES TO LEAVE BANKRUPTCY
The path is now clear for General Motors Corp. to leave bankruptcy protection in record time as a leaner company that is better equipped to compete in a brutal global...
REALTY BUBBLE
Long-awaited evidence that the commercial real estate market is about to stumble may finally be emerging. According to newly released data from Real Capital Analytics, some $108 billion worth of...
THIS 'STIMULUS' JOB PAYS ZILCH
Some of the jobs being created by the economic-stimulus law are going to be of the unpaid variety. The feds are putting out a call for volunteers willing to sort...
KELLY'S KILLING AT CITI
Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit's got a new right-hand man. The beleaguered financial giant yesterday announced another round of executive musical chairs that has effectively catapulted rising star Ned Kelly to...
OW! 'CHOW' A CHAU TILL NOW
Philippe Chow insists it's a "pure coincidence" he shares the last name of his rival restaurateur and former boss Mr. Chow, but his own handwriting says otherwise. When he quit...
RETAIL SLUMP SLIPS INTO 10TH STRAIGHT MONTH
Retailers extended their collective losing streak, reporting a 10th straight monthly sales decline as skittish shoppers clamped down on spending. Same-store sales -- or sales at stores open at least...
TIMES TO TAKE TOLL ON WEB
Faced with the prospect of going broke, The New York Times wants to charge $5 a month for access to its Web site -- more than the cost of a...
CERBERUS HOLDS UP ITS CLIENTS
Cerberus Capital Management LP, the firm whose investments include Chrysler LLC and GMAC LLC, plans to make clients wait as long as three-and-a-half years to withdraw all their money from...
SPAMMER HAMMER: CUOMO TARGETS TAGGED WEB SITE
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo plans to file a lawsuit against social-networking site Tagged.com, accusing it of using deceptive e-mail marketing practices and invasion of privacy. The lawsuit alleges...
DAVE'S PICK STEAKS CLAIM
The steak was rare -- but the ceremony was unprecedented. In an unusual start to his appointment, Gov. Paterson's pick for lieutenant governor selected popular Brooklyn eatery Peter Luger Steak...
SUBWAY PLAN IS '7' HEAVEN
The 7 line is going robo. MTA officials are taking bids on an estimated $348 million project to computerize the Flushing-to-Times Square line, which would allow more frequent service and...
DISORDER IN THE COURT
These jurors are producing their own version of "12 Angry Men." Six days of deliberations in a case tied to a $2.4 billion fraud at Refco, formerly the nation's largest...
CAPO & HIS CHAPEAU
He was a "Wild and Crazy" wiseguy. Reputed Genovese capo Michael "Mikey Cigars" Coppola broke the mold for mob fashion when he wore a laughably floppy denim hat as he...
IT'S SCRAWL OVER
An international graffiti vandal was sentenced yesterday to six months in jail for defacing subway cars in Queens -- the same six months she's serving for tagging trains in three...
TAIL TO THE CHIEF
Baby got Barack! The leader of the free world and his French counterpart were caught sneaking a peek at a the pink-satin-draped booty of a 17-year-old junior G-8 delegate just...
NEV. POL: MONEY TO MISTRESS A GOOD 'FAMILY' VALUE
LAS VEGAS -- Sen. John Ensign yesterday admitted that his parents gave his mistress and her husband nearly $100,000 "out of concern for the well-being of longtime family friends during...
FOSSETT ORDEAL
WASHINGTON -- Sudden turbulence likely caused adventurer Steve Fossett to lose control of the small plane he was piloting and crash into a mountain in California in 2007, safety investigators...
GOOGLE IS FAULTED ON PRIVACY
A group critical of Google's privacy practices got a jump on the search giant yesterday. Consumer Watchdog, which accuses Google of spying on users, sent out an alert early yesterday...
DOUGHNUT WARS!
Time to Canuck the donuts. Tim Hortons, the doughnut chain so popular in Canada that some hold it partly responsible for overburdening the nation's socialized medical system, is opening its...
NUR$ING A GRUDGE VS. ASTOR SON
Brooke Astor signed over $5 million cash to her son on Aug. 13, 2003 -- the same day her nurse noted in her journal that the 101-year-old woman was "not...
PLENTY OF BUZZ ON GE
WHILE Vivendi CEO Jean- Bernard Levy for years has said he will eventually sell his stake in NBC Universal back to General Electric, the chatter around Sun Valley, Idaho, this...
FROM BAD TO WORSE
If post-coup Albany looks anything like pre-coup Albany, watch out for higher taxes, profligate spending and more job-killing regulation. In other words: business as usual. With the Democrats back in...
NOW COMES THE HARD PART
Pedro Espada, the Bronx state senator who double-crossed fellow Demo crats to join with Republicans and paralyze Albany for a month, yesterday ended the crisis -- by double-crossing the GOP....
BARNEYS' SUITOR
As the owners of Barneys New York dither, they may lose control of the struggling luxury chain to another power player. Hedge-fund tycoon Richard Perry -- a snappy dresser on...
BERNIE UN-APPEALING
Bernard Madoff will not challenge his 150-year prison sentence for scamming billions of dollars from investors. "We won't be appealing the sentence," Madoff's lawyer, Ira Sorkin, said yesterday. He declined...
BOOST FOR MIKE FOE
The floundering mayoral campaign of City Comptroller Bill Thompson got a boost last night with the backing of the Working Families Party. The left-leaning party's support for Thompson, who scored...
SCHMIDT SAYS BING HAS ZING
Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt said Microsoft's new Bing Internet search engine may lure more Web surfers in the future. While Google isn't losing many users to Bing, Microsoft's...
QB GAVE GAL A GOODBYE DISS
She was cuffed in the back seat of a cop car, but her drunken lover, gridiron great Steve McNair, couldn't have cared less -- he callously took off in a...
JACKO IN THIS BOX
Over his dead body! Michael Jackson's family is bitterly divided over how best to profit off the King of Pop's remains -- so his body has been stashed in Motown...
HI-RISE HUNT FOR MISSING MOTHER
An army of cops and police dogs yesterday combed every inch of a lower Manhattan office tower in a desperate effort to find a mother of three who vanished from...
SLEAZY DOES IT IN COUP PART 2
ALBANY -- The chaotic state Senate stalemate came to a stunning end yesterday as two-time turncoat Sen. Pedro Espada Jr. of The Bronx double-crossed his GOP allies, returned to the...
'86 TROPHY IS LATEST METS LOSS
As if the Mets needed any more bad news, someone auctioned off a rare World Series trophy originally awarded to the team to commemorate its 1986 win over the Boston...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Here's a gag that came dangerously close to being very unfunny. A prankster called a couple in an Orlando, Fla., hotel room pretending to be the front-desk clerk and told...
YANKEES HEAD WEST TO FACE NEMESIS
The Red Sox have used the Yankees as punching bags this season, but for years it has been the Angels who routinely have beaten up on the boys from The...
METS' YEAR WILL ONLY GET WORSE
PAT Misch has allowed one run in 10 innings as a Met. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for reading the good news about the Mets. Now back to the regularly...
MURPHY'S AMAZIN' PLAY NOT ENOUGH
Jerry Manuel struggled to justify and explain his decision to keep first baseman Daniel Murphy out of the starting lineup last night. BOX SCORECHAT REWINDCYCLONES A BRIGHT SPOT Rather than...
LIVAN'S JOB IN JEOPARDY
After a feel-good April and May, Livan Hernandez has turned back into, well, Livan Hernandez. BOX SCORECHAT REWINDCYCLONES A BRIGHT SPOT And according to Jerry Manuel, it just might cost...
BRIGHT TIMES DEAD AHEAD ON NEW YORK WATERWAYS
THAT was the sun you saw this week in case you forgot what it looked like, and it came out just in time for most of you to enjoy the...
KIDD SEES HILL, NOT LEBRON, IN N.Y.
Jason Kidd said he believes Grant Hill will sign with the Knicks this July but doubts LeBron James is coming to New York next July. In an interview on the...
'OUT' IN FASHION, I PRESUME
LEARNING to play base ball smarter than the other guy used to provide an advantage. But The Game's diminishing standards increasingly disallow such an edge. And we're not just talking/writing...
ADMIRED HIGH SCHOOL COACH DIES
Frank Mickens, who guided Boys & Girls to its last PSAL boys basketball title in 1979, died yesterday. Mickens, who was 63, coached the hoops team for 11 years. He...
GIRARDI HOPES FOR MORE AGGRESSIVE JOBA
MINNEAPOLIS -- The Yankees have talked to Joba Chamberlain about being more aggressive in the strike zone and are curious to see if the advice is put into action tonight...
HUGHES DEVELOPS VALUE IN EIGHTH
MINNEAPOLIS -- Rarely has such a small sample produced so much praise from the highest mountain. Asked what he thought of Phil Hughes' success as a reliever, Mariano Rivera gushed...
HONDO: GO, SOX, GO!
Hondo bounced back over the 300 mark yesterday when the Cards chugged past the Brewskis to elevate the earnings to 325 dotsons (who if playing today would be named Nissan)....
SPORTS SHORTS
BLOTTER: Leyritz still in jail Former Yankees star Jim Leyritz burst into tears during a court hearing in Fort Lauderdale after learning a postponement would keep him in jail for...
VINCE STILL ADVISING YOUNG NET
In the first two games of the Orlando Summer League this week, Chris Douglas-Roberts played every bit like an experienced NBA player. The numbers said so: 47 points, 14-of-26 shooting,...
QUEEN SERENA HAS KING-SIZED GOAL
Serena Williams arrives in New York fresh off Saturday's Wimbledon win over big sister Venus, her second Grand Slam title of the year and 11th of her career. She's just...
TIED FOR 1ST, YANKEES DREAM ABOUT HALLADAY
MINNEAPOLIS -- Hours before the Yankees and Twins put the Metrodome crowd to sleep, the visiting clubhouse was buzzing over a pitcher who was pitching in Florida for a team...
KOTALIK IN, ZHERDEV LIKELY OUT
So what does yesterday's three-year, $9 million signing of Ales Kotalik, a 30-year-old winger with a modest ceiling who has never been a plus-player in seven NHL seasons and who...
FOR LANCE, IT'S MOUNTAIN DO!
BARCELONA, Spain -- A split second off the lead with the mighty Pyrenees looming, Lance Armstrong now gets to see what his rivals can throw at him. After mostly flat,...
CHOI LEADS OPEN; BIVENS ON WAY OUT
Na Yeon Choi of South Korea birdied her first three holes, and four of her first five, for a 3-under 68 yesterday and a one-stroke lead after the first round...
DODGERS THRIVING UNDER MATTINGLY
Don Mattingly is now L.A. all the way. From Dodger blue to the gray soul patch on his chin, Donnie Baseball has gone Hollywood. The Yankees great has embraced his...
PARKER, SPARKS SCORCH LIBERTY
Last night at the Garden the new face of the WNBA was smiling. After giving birth to her first child on May 13 and missing the first eight games of...
ROYAL PAIN FOR RED SOX
The Royals rallied from an early four-run deficit and knocked the Red Sox out of sole possession of first place in the AL East with an 8-6 victory last night...
METS CAN'T GET OVER THE 'UMP'
At least the Mets weren't the only flops to take the field in New York over the past week. There was also John Hirschbeck's umpiring crew, which last night completed...
PHILLIES, PEDRO TALKING
Pedro Martinez could soon be joining the Mets' archrivals. Martinez's agent, Fernando Cuza, told The Post that Martinez and the Phillies are interested in each other, and a person with...
MARTINEZ PLACED ON DISABLED LIST
What's another leak in the Titanic? The Mets should have changed the "NY" on their caps to "DL" long ago, and now they have one more reason. A day after...
5 QUESTIONS FOR... IAN BAKER-FINCH
TNT analyst and 1991 British Open champion Ian Baker-Finch spoke with The Post's Justin Terranova about this year's Open Championship, which begins Thursday, and the pressure on Tiger to claim...
HEADLESS BODS: TOPS
OFF with their heads! It worked for the French Revolution, and it's obviously inspired Yinka Shonibare, whose gor geously garbed mannequins -- topless from the neck up -- have taken...
GOTTA GIVE SOARING JET THEIR PROPS
EVEN though Aussie rockers Jet acquired their interna tional stardom via an iPod TV advertisement that featured their infectiously catchy tune "Are You Gonna Be My Girl," they are far...
RAGE BEHIND THE STAGE
TWO of Broadway's most notorious scoundrels have sli thered back into the spotlight this week. Up in Toronto, Garth Drabinsky, producer of such flops as "Kiss of the Spider Woman"...
'BETH' BET!
HAVING spent my teen years serially dismantling the hearts of the cheerleading squad and swatting those pesky pleas to play quarterback for Florida State and Oklahoma, I would, of course,...
YOO-HOO, MRS. GOLDBERG
AS a wee lad growing up in an Italian- American family in Boonton, NJ, I always enjoyed watching "The Goldbergs," a sitcom about a Jewish-American family in The Bronx. For...
THE VANISHED EMPIRE
RETURN with us now to Moscow 1973 and a student named Sergey, who is more interested in American jeans, Pink Floyd, pot and, of course, girls than in his Marxist...
INNER BEAUTY
LIFETIME'S new dramedy, "Drop Dead Diva," is a sur prisingly charming, strictly-female show about a skinny model who dies suddenly and ends up inhabiting the body of a dead plus-size...
NEW 'RUNWAY' CAST
LIFETIME has finally unveiled the 16 contestants for its first season of "Project Runway," premiering Aug. 20 at 10 p.m. The show, stuck in legal hell after moving from Bravo,...
STARR REPORT
Good news over at the Sat urday edition of CBS' "The Early Show" (Erica Hill, Chris Wragge), which saw its viewership jump to 1.7 million last Saturday -- up 10...
'DYNAMITE' STAR GETS 2010 SITCOM
JON Heder, who starred in the 2004 big-screen cult hit "Napoleon Dynamite," is getting his own TV show. Heder will star in a Comedy Central sitcom co-written by Will Ferrell...
WEEKEND HOT PICKS IN ENTERTAINMENT
GO-GO GODARD FILM - 11 The Museum of the Moving Image is hooking up with the Museum of Arts and Design to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the French New...
POP. ROCK, FOLK
AIMEE MANN: The indie singer/songwriter plays three nights at City Winery. Monday through Wednesday at 8 p.m. 155 Varick St.; 212-608-0555. BRAND NEW: The Long Island rockers, who are hoping...
Drama Mama: Seriously, 'Entourage'?
Can't get enough of your favorite scripted series? Neither can Drama Mama. Here's what to look for this week when you're not watching "Mad Men" season two on DVD, which...
IN THE END, IT'S JUST ART
FEW kinds of art are more boring than the insistently transgressive, and few movies are more boring than "Humpday," which features two straight guys who spend an hour discussing whether...
HEMOGLOBIN NOWHERE
THE press notes for "Blood: The Last Vampire" take pains to report that the film is based on a 2000 Jap anese anime movie that won prizes at several festivals....
COLLISION OF RANDOM INTERSECTIONS
WITH "Lake Tahoe," Mexican filmmaker Fernando Eimbcke proves himself adept at turning a blank screen into a work of art. Each carefully composed scene is separated by an empty black...
IN THIS PLAY, WHAT GOES AROUND, COMES AROUND
WHEN French director Ariane Mnouchkine and her company, Théatre du Soleil, come to New York, they don't settle into just any theater. Four years ago, the Lincoln Center Festival erected...
FULL-THROTTLE MODEL
BRUNO Sacha Baron Cohen's long-awaited, envelope-pushing follow-up to "Borat" -- featuring a gay fashionista -- has gut-bustingly funny moments, but it's nowhere near as funny: It's more mean-spirited, some of...
BROADWAY
"BLITHE SPIRIT": **½ Angela Lansbury and Jayne Atkinson prevent director Michael Blakemore from completely smothering Noel Coward's comedy. Shubert Theatre, 225 W. 44th St.; 212-239-6200. Closes July 19. "GOD OF...
Manuel: Livan's spot in jeopardy
A second consecutive awful start and four straight losses Livan Hernandez could cost the journeyman right-hander his rotation spot with the reeling Mets, according to Jerry Manuel. Hernandez lasted just...
Pitching set for Reds series
The pitching matchups are set for the Mets' three-game series with the Reds at Citi Field that starts tonight and marks the final action for both teams before the All-Star...
Leo Krupnik the new (old) RBNY trialist
Here are some updates on the Red Bulls trialists:Young fullback Alvaro Franco didn't make the cut, old la Liga vet Veljko PaunoviÄ is hamstrung and still deciding if he'll stick...
LEVI JOHNSTON: PALIN RESIGNED BECAUSE OF MONEY
The former fiance of Gov. Sarah Palin's 18-year-old daughter says he believes he knows why the Alaska governor is resigning - concerns over money. Nineteen-year-old Levi Johnston, whose wedding to...
RBNY legend Mike Petke on 1999=2009: "It's a flashback, and it sucks. Bad.''
Petke got drafted in 1998 and spent the first five years of his career with the MetroStars. He always wore his heart on his sleeve _ or in some cases,...
TAIL TO THE CHIEF
Baby got Barack! The leader of the free world and his French counterpart were caught sneaking a peek at a the pink-satin-draped booty of a 17-year-old junior G-8 delegate just...