June 2, 2008
ROTO - Take a good look at these rooks
It's not often you find a baseball rookie who can contribute to your fantasy campaign with the same impact of, say, running back Adrian Peterson or to the level of...
Ex-Met Gonzalez brought back
The Mets are bringing outfielder Raul Gonzalez back to their system on a minor-league contract. He will report to extended spring training in Port St. Lucie before joining Triple-A New...
Newbie Blogger Bart Trains His Fire On The Times' Movie Critics
Welcome Peter Bart to the blogosphere. The Variety editor and longtime studio apologist, who replaced the late Jack Valenti as Hollywood's blowhard-in-chief, has of course been decrying bloggers even more...
Resident Evil 5 trailer - whoo hoo!
Remember when there was a big kerfluffle over this game? No? Here's a refresher.
Seeing triple
Talk about a hand me down.Fashion icon and former TV star Sarah Jessica Parker stepped onto the pink carpet at the New York City premiere of "Sex and the City:...
THE CANO PROBLEM
FROM JOEL SHERMANBefore this season began, the Yankee who would have been given the best odds to win a batting title was Robinson Cano. He finished so strong last year,...
3 DOWN: Cano and Mo
1. Before this season began, the Yankee who would have been given the best odds to win a batting title was Robinson Cano. He finished so strong last year, had...
Don't have a PS3 yet? Get this one.
Get yers, get yers, get yers, get yers, get yers We are but a week and a half away from the release of "Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the...
CLINTON'S CAMPAIGN APPEARS CLOSE TO END
Signs that Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign is nearing an end began to multiply today. Campaigning in South Dakota, her husband said this could be his final time on the presidential...
DEALS: Silversea, for cheap(er)
Autopsy of a Silversea Silver Shadow suite. Shadow. Wind. Cloud. Whisper... Don't be fooled for a second by Silversea's hippie-sounding fleet. This line's all luxury, all suite, all compelling evidence...
Jackman re-signs with Islanders
The Islanders and forward Tim Jackman have agreed to terms on a one-year contract extension through 2008-09.Jackman played in 36 games with the Islanders in his first season in the...
In case you missed it: "Gears of War 2" footage
What? Late to the boat? Quiet, you! Anyway, gameplay footage from the upcoming "Gears of War 2" game, with an intro by the design director at Epic Games. FYI: the...
Murder, MURRRRDER most foul
Sleeping beauty or dead beach babe? You decide. It's been a really long time since I last tried to play a mystery game on the PC. (How long? It was...
WITNESS: R. KELLY HAD SEX WITH A 13-YEAR-OLD GIRL
R&B star R. Kelly engaged in steamy three-way sex sessions with an underage girl and another woman on at least three occasions - including double teaming the teen on a...
CHECKING IN: Paging Dr. Klein!
Holy Whatever, Whenever button, Batman! The WSJ reports today that Starwood style guru Ross Klein is jumping ship to a company that could really use his help: Hilton.While Hilton's a...
This just in: Quick links to news
When will Faraday lose the tie on "Lost"? "Lost"Start making predictions for the next season of "Lost" by suggesting questions for Dark UFO's Prediction League. (Sample questions from last year's...
Red Bulls closing in on Jorge "Zurdo'' Rojas
todofutbolnet.mforos.com By BRIAN LEWISMidfielder Jorge “Zurdo’’ Rojas has been a Red Bull target for months, with the Post reporting the club’s interest in him in April. And now the second-most...
Newest Giant: Renaldo Wynn
By PAUL SCHWARTZThe Giants have signed veteran defensive end Renaldo Wynn.Is this a sure sign that the Giants have an inkling that sure-fire future Hall of Famer Michael Strahan is...
In case you missed it...
Click here for a photo gallery of the 2008 MTV Movie Award winnersCheck out the full list of nominees and winners after the jump. Best MovieJunoPirates of the Caribbean: At...
ON DECK: METS AT GIANTS
After the previous Monday Willie Randolph had, which included a marathon meeting with ownership when his job hung in the balance and a 7-3 loss to the Marlins, a cross-country...
ON DECK: YANKEES AT TWINS
In Andy Pettitte's previous start, he had the shadow of Joba Chamberlain looming over him, with the Yankees desperate to stretch out the youngster's arm from the bullpen to get...
Simon searches the world for more talent
Music mogul Simon Cowell has plucked seven singing sensations from the masses and thrown them into stardom on "American Idol," he has defined that undefinable "something" that makes for star...
Coverage in today's Post
Greetings from chilly San Francisco, where -- as Joel Sherman points out in the post below -- the Mets could be poised for a resurgence after Sunday night's 6-1 win...
Rangers sign forward Zaborsky
Glen Sather announced today that the Rangers have agreed to terms with forward Tomas Zaborsky. Zaborsky, 20, skated in 68 games with the Saginaw Spirit of the Ontario Hockey League...
Deal of the Day-Velvet
Now here’s a Monday morning bargain for you.This Pamona Dress from Velvet is only $32 down from $108 at active endeavors and is conveniently machine washable and made from breezy...
KIM CATTRALL RETURNS TO HBO IN NEW SERIES
"Sex and the City" star Kim Cattrall, currently reprising her Samantha role in the show's big-screen version, is returning to HBO in yet another female-oriented series. This time it's called...
Report: Renaldo Wynn signs
Profootballtalk.com reports that DE Renaldo Wynn has agreed to terms with the team.Wynn was a first-round pick of the Jaguars in 1997, when Tom Coughlin was head coach in Jacksonville.
BO DIDDLEY DEAD AT 79
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Bo Diddley, a founding father of rock 'n' roll whose distinctive "shave and a haircut, two bits" rhythm and innovative guitar effects inspired legions of other musicians,...
'Special One' Joins Inter
APJose Mourinho joined Inter Milan as coach on Monday, ending his eight-month exile from management.The Portuguese signed a three-year contract with the Serie A champion. It's his first job since...
Night Spins as 'The Happening' Burns
You know a movie's a trouble when its director participates in one of those damage-control pieces that are appearing more and more in the New York Times. The director, of...
Starr Report: Usher's Repeat Cycle
"Lost's" Matthew Fox On the other end of the day, Craig Ferguson's "Late Late Show" beat Conan O'Brien's "Late Night" in New York (total viewers) for five consecutive weeks through...
THOUSANDS ATTEND ISRAEL ANNIVERSARY PARADE
Thousands of people marched up Fifth Avenue on Sunday in the annual Salute to Israel Parade celebrating the 1948 founding of the Jewish state. "It's important to show our solidarity...
Are the Mets ready for takeoff?
From JOEL SHERMANThe Mets suddenly are at a launching point part of their season. They have won five of six, they are getting healthy and -- while they are heading...
3 UP: Rising Mets, Randolph and the White Sox
1. The Mets suddenly are at a launching point part of their season. They have won five of six, they are getting healthy and -- while they are heading out...
TATUM IN COKE ARREST
Troubled Oscar-winning actress Tatum O'Neal, who has spoken and written about her years-long battle with addiction, was busted last night just blocks from her Lower East Side luxury apartment -...
DVD Extra: Francis Ford Coppola on Moviegoing in World War II Queens
Among the many wonderful features on Criterion's stunning new two-disc edition of the Technicolor classic "The Thief of Bagdad'' (1940) is a commentary track featuring no less than Francis Ford...
Chick Flick Outlook: Thirty-Something Has-Beens Versus Fifty-Something Has-Beens
SATC audiences did get to see this not-great trailer for "He's Just Not That Into You,'' which is based on a book inspired by the catchphrase popularized by SATC. Besides...
'Disaster Movie' Poster
I like this poster that Lionsgate just released for "Disaster Movie,'' an August 29 opener that the studio previously listed as "untitled spoof movie.'' Nice takeoff of "The Day After...
'L &O' TAKES ON LINDA STEIN MURDER
'LAW & Order: Criminal Intent" is taking on the case of Linda Stein, the ex-Ramones manager turned realtor to the stars who was murdered last October - complete with some...
GO TO GREG
Q: I am a college grad who been looking for a job in marketing since December. I have been on interviews with some well know companies but still no offers....
DREAM JOB
Lots of New Yorkers enjoy going to business lunches and business dinners. For Jennifer Baum, lunch and dinner are her business. As the owner of the p.r. firm Bullfrog &...
YOURS, MINE AND HOURS
New Richmond, Wisc., isn't widely known as a hotbed of workplace innovation. But it's home to the first - and so far the only - firm to follow Best Buy's...
IT'S QUITTING TIME
I've resigned from eight jobs over the past 18 years, and have handled the "giving notice" moments with everything from heartfelt empathy to sadistic glee. In some cases, the writing...
STOP THE CLOCK!
'HUMAN beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles, staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about mission...
A MOUNTAIN OF GREATNESS
Today's page looks Mount Rushmore - a monument to four great American presidents. THE majestic monument known as Mount Rushmore sits on land once owned by the Lakota Sioux. The...
PURE PIERS
PIERS Morgan - the prickly judge on "America's Got Talent" and winner of the first celebrity "Apprentice" - is getting his own British talk show. Morgan signed a two-year deal...
'90210' ALMA MORTAR
THE new version of "90210" will look familiar to fans of the original shows for at least one reason - it's being filmed at the same high school. The new...
'SYBIL' WAR HERO
IT helps to have multiple personalities to watch "Sybil," the 1976 landmark TV movie starring Sally Field and Joanne Woodward, and CBS's new version of the same story starring Tammy...
STEWART 'REHAB' CELEB
SEAN Stewart, the trou bled son of singer Rod Stewart, is the latest Beverly Hills brat to check into the second season of "Celebrity Rehab." Stewart will join a cast...
STARR REPORT
Usher's Repeat CycleUsher performed live on "GMA" Friday, but the con cert didn't air in New York, since Ch. 7 cut away to cover the tragic crane collapse on the...
PULSE SALES
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LATIN LESSONS
THE strong euro may put the grand tour of Europe out of reach this summer, but that doesn't mean you've got to completely forgo all the Spanish steps. We were...
MUSIC MEMORIES
FOR a single weekend in 1969, the upstate town of Bethel grew to be the third-largest city in New York state. Then the bleary-eyed hippies left, covered with mud and...
NOTHING OUT OF STEP IN THIS SPIRITED HIT
CERTAINLY "Concerto DSCH" seems at first glance - even second glance - a weird name for a ballet, but Alexei Ratmansky's new work created for New York City Ballet on...
PATTERSON'S DEBUT END FOR ENSBERG
MINNEAPOLIS - In order to import emergency bullpen help yesterday after exhausting their pen during Saturday night's 12-inning victory, the Yankees had to swallow the remaining $1.12 million on Morgan...
YANKEES DONE IN BY THE TWIN PEN
MINNEAPOLIS - Darrell Rasner has certainly been more effective and durable than Phil Hughes and Ian Kennedy and a big reason the Yankees aren't on life support in the AL...
BLOODY SUNDAY FOR BLACKBURN
MINNEAPOLIS - Compared to the last opposing pitcher hit in the face by a ball off a Yankees bat, Nick Blackburn was fortunate yesterday when Bobby Abreu's liner deflected off...
KIMBO'S FISTS BELONG IN BOXING RING
AFTER watching Kimbo Slice in the main event of the nationally televised mixed martial arts card Saturday night at the Prudential Center in Newark, I came away with one over-riding...
'CASINO' MAY PUT 'BROWN' ON TILT
TRAINER Richard Dutrow Jr. has launched the Triple Crown Coronation season with a trumpet blast heard round the planet: Come one, come all and see Big Brown in the greatest...
SPORTS SHORTS
NASCAR: Kyle Busch wins itKyle Busch was simply sensational again, dominating the second half of the 400-mile race yesterday at Dover International Speedway and racing to his Sprint Cup series-best...
RIGHT ON SCHEDULE
Rick Dutrow Jr. trains Big Brown, the undefeated "Brown Bomber" who bids for the Triple Crown in Saturday's Belmont Stakes. This week he shares his thoughts and insights with Post...
GW, MADISON PUNCH TICKETS TO PSAL FINAL
On Friday, Jean Carlos Rodriguez and Fernando Frias will be at Shea Stadium when George Washington tries to win its first PSAL title since 1997. On Thursday, they will know...
DASILVA, AFFRUNTI AT GALLAGHER'S
The Post's ace handicapper John DaSilva, Daily Racing Form pedigree expert Lauren Stich, Lucas Marquardt of the Thoroughbred Daily News, and Joe Bravo's jockey agent Drew Mollica will be "playing"...
IN THE WRONG
FOR all the production meetings the TV industry holds, few seem to include firm reminders to announcers to admit their mistakes and say, "I was wrong" instead of sitting there...
HONDO BIG ON GIANTS
The Giants were heroic for Hondo yesterday as they bounced off the deck against Trevor Coughman and the pathetic Pods in the 10th to give the earn ings a boost...
TEN YEARS LATER, DESORMEAUX HAS ANOTHER SHOT AT CROWN
Let the Big Brown countdown begin. This Saturday in the 140th Belmont Stakes, before a likely crowd of 100,000 or more at Belmont Park, the runaway winner of the Kentucky...
WITH PEDRO BACK, PELFREY OR VARGAS LIKELY MINORS-BOUND
Willie Randolph yesterday called it a "long shot" that Mike Pelfrey would be moved to the bullpen, but said no decision has been reached on what path the Mets, who...
METS CONTINUE AN AMAZIN' RECOVERY
Joe Torre still has the magic touch in New York. All it took was his arrival for four games to quell another smoldering cauldron. Presto, no more chants of "Fire...
CHURCH BLASTS HR IN RETURN
Ryan Church had been the Mets' most consistent hitter, right up until getting concussed by Yunel Escobar's knee to his head nearly two weeks ago. Last night Church, the most...
NO DOUBT, RED-HOT REYES STILL HAS 'IT'
OH. That's right. He also can look like this. We forget sometimes, because there are times when Jose Reyes can be the most frustrating player in baseball. He can make...
MCCLELLAN ON BUSH: TRUTH-TELLER OR TRAITOR?
If nothing else, Scott McClellan's new book vilifying the Bush administration provides more questions than answers about the character of McClellan himself ("Bushie's Cruel Cuts," Jay Nordlinger, PostOpinion, May 29)....
SOLVING PUMP PAIN
SKYROCKETING energy prices are hammering Americans. Five years ago this week, gasoline cost an average of $1.43 a gallon at the pump; this week, it's $3.94. And home electricity averaged...
CAP & TRADE: WHY IT'S TAX & SPEND
THE Senate takes up the Climate Security Act this week. At its heart is the hot new anti-glob al-warming scheme, known as "cap and trade," which John McCain and Barack...
HILLARY'S CRAZY CREW
WE'D heard a lot about Barack Obama's fanatical sup porters, but little about Hillary Clinton's frenzied following - until this past weekend's meeting of the Democratic National Committee's Rules and...
PUERTO RICO HER LAST HURRAH
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Hillary Rodham Clinton cleaned up in the Puerto Rico primary election yesterday - but her overwhelming victory in the tropical US territory did nothing to...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sun.: 188; Lucky Sum: 17 / Midday Win-4 Sun.: 8715; Lucky Sum: 21 / Evening Nos. Sun.: 160; Lucky Sum: 7 / Evening Win- 4 Sun.:...
HUGH & HIS WHEEE ONE
Aussie hunk Hugh Jackman gives 2-year-old daughter Ava a heave into the air during some downtime from shooting "XMen Origins: Wolverine." The hirsute star (note the mutant sideburns) spent the...
MY WIFE IS $CAMMING ME: HEARST
All marriages have problems, but John Randolph Hearst's is a little more dramatic than most - he says the wife he is being blocked from divorcing has swindled him out...
A HOT PROPERTY
Fire tore through Universal Studios in Hollywood yesterday - and it all began on a "New York" street. The blaze scorched a 400-acre back lot, destroying a set from "Back...
CAMPAIGN WORKER'S RANT IS A DISG-RACE
WASHINGTON - A Manhattan woman who backs Hillary Rodham Clinton stormed out of the Democratic rules committee meeting after screaming at the panel members and launching a racial attack on...
BIG BROWN ON TRACK TO BE A $UPERSTUD
Triple Crown contender Big Brown has a well-endowed future: Win or lose the Belmont Stakes on Saturday, he'll command more than $100,000 for each mare he impregnates. That means that...
ANGELINA'S ONE HOT MAMA
A pouty (and pregnant) Angelina Jolie smolders in the new Vanity Fair - and tells the mag she's never felt better. "I love it," she says of pregnancy. "It makes...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan Police nabbed a thief who stabbed two men in Chelsea, authorities said yesterday. Lamont Zimmerman, 43, accosted the victims, ages 22 and 26, at Eighth Avenue and West 18th...
TAVERN PICKS UP 'SLUR' TAB
The iconic Tavern on the Green will fork over millions of dollars to employees to settle a discrimination lawsuit over a manager's alleged sexist and racist taunts, federal officials are...
STICKUP BACKFIRES
An off-duty Bronx cop shot and killed a man trying to rob the officer's wife of $20,000 in gambling winnings she was holding for a jailed man, police sources told...
'SEX' SELLS: IT'S TOP FILM
Women flocked to theaters across the country to enjoy some long-awaited "Sex" over the weekend. The much-anticipated film version of the HBO series "Sex and the City" raked in $55.7...
POST'S DICKER SNAGS AWARD
ALBANY - Veteran New York Post state editor Fredric U. Dicker has been awarded the coveted Legislative Correspondents Association Alumni Award for outstanding coverage of state government during the past...
TATUM IN COKE ARREST
Oscar-winner Tatum O'Neal was released from jail today following her arrest for buying drugs from a homeless ex-con on the Lower East Side. PHOTOS: Tatum Leaves CourtPHOTOS: Tatum Through the...
FATAL BREAK-UP
The man suspected of fatally slashing his Ivy League girlfriend's throat in their Chelsea apartment before leaping to his death from a Financial District high-rise committed the savage murder right...
BX. MAN BUSTED UP IN COP CLASH
All William Cardoza did was walk outside his Bronx building with chicken and a Coors Light and cops went ballistic, clubbing him with batons and breaking his arm, his wife...
DA FISHES FOR SCRAPS IN DEVECCHIO CASE
Brooklyn prosecutors will attempt this week to put away a Florida fishing-boat captain for a 1989 killing - their last chance to salvage a victory after the humiliating collapse of...
CITY'S DIRTY LITTLE SECRET IS WHY IT'S ON THE DEFENSIVE
IF Mayor Bloomberg and other city officials sound even more defensive than usual in discussing last week's lethal crane collapse, it might have to do with an overlooked fact about...
TOO-TIRED CLERK NIXES NUPTIALS
A Bronx bride was left at the altar, but it wasn't the groom who stood her up - it was the court clerk, who refused to marry the couple because...
MANHATTAN'S 'ILLEGAL' INN-DUSTRY
Manhattan is overrun by more than 200 illegal hotels in residential buildings, taking affordable housing away from tenants and cheating the city out of millions of dollars in tax revenue,...
CRANE-DEATH ANGUISH
A construction worker killed in Friday's Upper East Side crane collapse worked seven days a week trying to raise enough money to bring his ailing parents from Albania to the...
SIMCHA GETS BLOOMY NOD
Mayor Bloomberg is going to put his political clout on the line by endorsing a longtime ally who is about to make an unexpected run for the state Senate seat...
END OF THE ROAD FOR HILL
In an unexpected move, Hillary Rodham Clinton will abandon the campaign trail before votes are cast in the final primaries tomorrow, returning to New York where she's expected to weigh...
BRAVEST TOP NYPD, 16-15
The Bravest were at their finest yesterday, beating the NYPD, 16-15, with a field goal in the final two minutes of their annual gridiron grudge match. The Fire Department took...
SHORTAGE LINKED TO THE BOOM IN DUBAI
The growth of Dubai, epicenter of the global construction boom, is making cranes harder to come by and more expensive to rent in New York, industry leaders say. Those complaints...
GOING OFF THE MENUS
Fast-food joints across the city are flouting the city's controversial new calorie-posting rule, health inspectors are finding. Eighty-one chain restaurants - from Dunkin' Donuts to T.G.I. Friday's to McDonald's -...
CITY BREAKS PARK PLEDGE
Residents of northern Brooklyn say the city owes them a lot of green - about 50 acres worth. Three years ago, city officials promised to deliver Greenpoint and Williamsburg residents...
$15M FOR THE BIRDS
Taxpayers are being forced to shell out $15 million on the off chance that a rare sparrow will come back to roost at a former city landfill overlooking Brooklyn's Marine...
MANNY HAPPY RETURNS
A big-hearted Upper West Side baseball fan made the catch of a lifetime - and then returned the ball for free to the slugger who blasted it into the stands....
CHILL FACTOR
Top music downloads 1. Love In This Club, Usher 2. Low, Flo Rida 3. With You, Chris Brown 4. Lollipop, Lil Wayne 5. Boss, Rick RossTiVo favorites 1. Grey's Anatomy...
$3B STAR GAZING
Former Yahoo! and Warner Bros. Entertainment CEO Terry Semel plans to make a run at acquiring private-equity investor Teddy Forstmann's IMG marketing and talent agency, The Post has learned. According...
THE BEAT GOES ON FOR SEASON'S BEST
This week call us Tune Town, the place to go for what's hot on the summer music scene. Guitar aficionados are going to love the latest edition of Rolling Stone,...
SCHWARTZ MAY BAG JPMORGAN
Rainmaking investment banker Alan Schwartz is debating whether to stay on at JPMorgan Chase or exit stage left in the wake of the bank's dramatic acquisition of Bear Stearns. Sources...
AVISTA FACES DEBT SQUEEZE AT STAR TRIBUNE
The beleaguered Minneapolis Star Tribune has asked creditors to delay its debt payments for six months while it cuts costs and tries to rescue its ailing balance sheet. But "The...
A STANDARD UPHELD
John D. Rockefeller, one the most fa mous businessmen in US history, might well be amused by the civil war pitting his biological descendants against his corporate heirs. For the...
WITH THEIR OWN MONEY AT STAKE . . .
The Democratic National Convention is a scant 90 days away, but the party's host committee still finds itself far short of the money it needs to stage the Denver hoe-down....
GETTING ONE RIGHT
New York's City Council historically spends every penny that falls within its grasp. But could a new day be dawning? Probably not - but the council's disposition of an unexpected...
DA DEFYING ORDER TO RELEASE SCANDAL FILES
ALBANY - Hapless Albany County District Attorney David Soares, who tried to hide Gov. Eliot Spitzer's Dirty Tricks Scandal last year with a half-baked "investigation," is now breaking the state's...
ABOUT TIME BAM DUMPED UNHOLY TRINITY
SIOUX FALLS, SD - Barack Obama's political spring cleaning should have been done a long time ago, but now that he's gotten around to it, it's been quite a thorough...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
An Iowa man who was busted with a large amount of marijuana told cops he was just going green, not getting high. A complaint by the Johnson County Sheriff's Office...
SOURCES: TATUM O'NEAL BUSTED FOR COKE & CRACK
Troubled Oscar-winning actress Tatum O'Neal, who has spoken and written about her years-long battle with addiction, was busted last night just blocks from her Lower East Side luxury apartment -...
Faber Defends WEC Title In Thriller
Urijah Faber and Jens Pulver locked up in a classic MMA match Sunday night with Faber earning a unanimous decision.By GEORGE WILLISThe much-anticipated fight between Urijah Faber and Jens Pulver...
Bologna Promoted to Serie A
By CLEMENTE LISIBologna, one of the most storied clubs in Italian soccer history, won promotion to Serie A on Sunday after beating Pisa 1-0 at home in Serie B's final...
Euros Sold Out
By CLEMENTE LISIPlanning a trip to Autria and Switzerland this month in the hopes of scoring tickets for the European Championship.Well, forget it.The tournament is sold out.All 1.05 million tickets...