July 12, 2008
Sepp Blatter=Idiot
By BRIAN LEWISFolks, indulge me just this minute to rant. After almost 18 years in this business, I may have found the Dumbest Man on Earth. Or just maybe the...
IT'S TIME FOR NEW BLACK LEADERS
The Reverend Jesse Jackson's very crude comment about wanting to cut off Barack Obama's testicles breached a psychological levee in black America. Yes, the remark was whispered, picked up when...
REPORT: ANGELINA JOLIE GIVES BIRTH
And two make six! Angelina Jolie reportedly gave birth to twin girls in a French hospital today, taking to half a dozen the number of children in the Jolie-Pitt clan....
Tight shoulder for Martinez
The Mets just announced that Pedro Martinez left today's game as a precautionary measure after experiencing tightness in his right (pitching) shoulder. 7:25 P.M. UPDATE: Both Martinez and Jerry Manuel...
BOBBY MURCER DIES
He never filled Mickey Mantle's shoes and wasn't one of baseball's superstars, but in the hearts of Yankees and their fans Bobby Murcer was a Hall of Fame person who...
Ben Gordon on Chris Duhon
Ben Gordon knows Duhon's game By BRIAN LEWISHey, all. My man Berm is with the Knicks, out there working, sweating and gambling in Vegas _ probably not in that order...
Pedro out early; injury?
Pedro Martinez (pictured) has been lifted from today's game with the Rockies at Shea Stadium in the bottom of the fourth inning after just 66 pitches. It was also just...
Game 94: Rockies at Mets
Winners of a season-high seven games in a row, the Mets try to keep their surge going this afternoon when Pedro Martinez takes on the Rockies’ Ubaldo Jimenez at Shea...
PETER: I STILL WANT US TO BE PALS
Christie Brinkley's chastened ex-husband Peter Cook held court for reporters on Long Island today, saying that he had no regrets about marrying the stunning supermodel, and that he hoped they...
Chandler, Gallinari represent future
By MARC BERMANLAS VEGAS - You get the sense Mike D'Antoni was a little uneasy taking Danilo Gallinari at No. 6 without ever watching him play live. But that sense...
Boki’s Farewell, More Moves Coming
By FRED KERBERBoki Nachbar, one of the real good guys over the years, sent an e-mail from Slovenia acknowledging the obvious, that he doesn’t fit in the Nets plans after...
Reaction to the Mets Top 10 Prospects List
We've gotten some feedback on the Mets' Top 10 Prospects List for July - particularly because of the inclusion of players (Reese Havens, Wilmer Flores and Ike Davis) that have...
Church is in the house
Fresh off further tests after being put on the DL this week because of post-concussion syndrome, right fielder Ryan Church (pictured) returned to Shea Stadium yesterday vowing to be back...
Coverage in today's Post
The Mets are owners of a season-high seven game win streak and keeping pace with the first-place Phillies after Damion Easley's solo shot in the eighth inning led to a...
U.S. U-20s trounce Mexico
By BRIAN LEWISApparently it's not just the full U.S. National Team that has Mexico by the _ er, short 'n curlies. Despite playing in front of a pro-Mexican crowd in...
CAMELOT'S DAUGHTER RISES
THE ISSUE: Whether Caroline Kennedy will choose to pursue Sen. Ted Kennedy's Senate seat. How independent is Caroline Kennedy's judgment if she endorsed Sen. Barack Obama, saying that he could...
NY'S ROCKY PAST: WHY SPENDING SOARED
THE ISSUE: The increases in state expenditures during Nelson Rockefeller's NY governorship. Don't forget who is really responsible for New York's $27.5 billion hole: the voter ("Rocky's Wreckage," E.J. McMahon,...
INVESTING IN SUNY
New jobs are now the byproduct of great research. IN the last decade, China created 50 new universities in a single province. The Chinese understand that intellectual capital is the...
THE DISSENT DECEIT
WE all have irritants that make us want to reach for the revolver. One of mine is the bumper-stickerization of the American mind - the reduction of our hard-won freedom...
DEMS READYING A BLOW TO JOE
DESPITE assurances to the contrary from Senate Ma jority Leader Harry Reid, Democratic insiders are certain Sen. Joseph Lieberman next year will be kicked out of the party's caucus and...
OLMERT'S '100G FRAUD'
Israel's prime minister scammed his country's revered Holocaust memorial, a charity for disabled children and other groups out of $100,000 in a brazen double-billing scheme, investigators said yesterday. They said...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Fri.: 908; Lucky Sum: 17 / Midday Win-4 Fri.: 1418; Lucky Sum: 14 / Evening Nos. Fri: 623; Lucky Sum: 11 / Evening Win-4 Fri.: 2742;...
BARACK ON 'TRACK'
WASHINGTON - Barack Obama, start your engine! Obama is preparing to smack his campaign logo on the hood of a NASCAR race car - in the candidate's latest gambit to...
MIRACLE 66-YEAR REUNION
Over the past 66 years, Irene Famulak's thoughts would often drift back to when she was a teenager growing up in Ukraine. She would close her eyes before going to...
A HUGE BLACK I FOR APPLE
The iPhone lines went dead. A worldwide server crash turned the much-hyped debut of the new holy grail of gadgetry into a stunning embarrassment for Apple, as the thousands who...
HOLA! MAC'S NEW TV PITCH TO HISPANICS
John McCain and Barack Obama are tripping over each other to the woo the Hispanic vote. Two days after Obama said parents should "make sure your child can speak Spanish,"...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Brooklyn Cops said Pedro Fernandez-Pacheco, 27 had been riding his bike along 54th Street shortly after 10 p.m. Thursday when he passed a stop sign at Seventh Avenue and was...
BARRON'S FINE AFTER CAR CRASH
City Councilman Charles Barron was in a car crash in Brooklyn late last night - but the colorful lawmaker was in good spirits after the smash-up. "I just braced myself...
CHEAP-RENT CHARLIE DENIES A 'SUITE DEAL'
A prickly Rep. Charles Rangel yesterday insisted he's not getting a "sweetheart deal" from his landlord after a report revealed his use of four rent-stabilized Harlem apartments - including one...
ME $$ GHOUL GETS 15 YRS.
A former top official in the city Medical Examiner's Office was hit with a 15-year prison term yesterday for ripping off $13 million in federal funds - the majority earmarked...
INTREPID KAYAKERS FLIP AT B'KLYN FALLS
A pair of kayakers were plucked from the roiling East River by harbor cops yesterday after their boats capsized near one of the recently installed waterfalls near the Brooklyn Bridge....
JON'S AXED UNION GAL STRIKES BACK
Carla Katz, the ousted chief of New Jersey's state worker union, filed a federal lawsuit yesterday against the Communications Workers of America, charging that the national group wrongfully booted her....
NEW PATH ON THOROUGHFARES
In just a few months, getting around Midtown will be a whole new experience. The Transportation Department is narrowing streets, widening sidewalks, and creating pedestrian plazas and bicycle lanes in...
JUDGE SEES COWBOY IN AU NATUREL HABITAT
The Naked Cowboy isn't known for being shy, but the scantily-clad guitarist was "speechless" when the federal judge handling his lawsuit against the makers of M&Ms made a surprise visit...
BIKER KILLED IN E. SIDE CRASH
A 24-year-old woman riding a bicycle died when she was struck by a mini-van on the East Side last night. The victim, who was headed north on First Avenue, was...
PURSE PERP JAILED
A vagrant whose purse-snatching spree included getaways into subway tunnels has been sentenced to 4 1/2 years behind bars. Perpetrator Mark McIntosh, 25, pleaded guilty last month to robbing four...
MARINE IN FATAL CRASH
A Marine who had survived the battlefields of Iraq was killed early yesterday on Staten Island when he lost control of his motorcycle, authorities said. Sgt. Thomas Neiper, 25, of...
ANOTHER SCARE AT KENNEDY
Two planes came dangerously close to colliding at JFK yesterday - the second near miss in six days - sparking the Federal Aviation Administration to overhaul takeoff and landing procedures...
$10M LAWSUIT IN ZOO ORDEAL
A man and his pregnant fiancée are demanding $10 million from the Bronx Zoo after being stuck on a cable car for five hours above fang-baring, flesh-eating baboons. "They didn't...
FILTHY GYM AIR BLAMED IN TRAINER'S DEATH
The foul air at a mold- and dirt-ridden Brooklyn gym may have been responsible for the death of a personal trainer four months ago, his family's lawyer said yesterday. John...
'KEY' TO LUXE EAST SIDE BURGLARIES
A burglar who has broken into more than a dozen units in a luxury Manhattan building is an employee using keys to steal from tenants, cops believe. Law-enforcement sources say...
'RIOTOUS' RABBI GETS BOOT OFF JET
A rabbi, a 70-year-old man and their wives were tossed off a Continental flight to Newark because the plane's crew said they were inciting a riot. Charles Kuperwasser, 55, and...
GI'S BODY RETURNING TO QNS. MA
A Queens mother whose son's body was found 14 months after the hero soldier was kidnapped in Iraq said she found out something special yesterday - that he had told...
BON JO-FREE TIX
A broker hawking tickets for tonight's free Bon Jovi concert in Central Park opted yesterday to give 100 of them away - even as its competitors kept their sales desks...
SUICIDE TIE TO 'SEX' DORMMATES
The grief-stricken mom of a college freshman who killed herself after she was allegedly gang-raped in a dorm room yesterday demanded an investigation of the cops who probed the attack...
A-ROD GETS RIBBED
TORONTO - There were cheers and jeers for A-Rod yesterday as the Yankee slugger reunited with his delighted 3-year-old daughter Natasha - but was heckled by fans who taunted him...
RICH RON IN ESTATE OF WAR
Billionaire Ron Perelman is suing the family of his late ex-wife, charging they've cheated her estate and their daughter out of tens of millions of dollars. In papers filed in...
CONDEMNED!
Like a California wildfire, yesterday's meltdown of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae nearly spread uncontrolled across Wall Street. The future of the nation's already reeling mortgage industry was thrown into...
INBEV'S BUD BID GETS LAGER
The Anheuser-Busch dynasty is nearing an end as chief August Busch IV hammers out a deal this weekend to sell the iconic American company to Belgian brewing giant InBev for...
RUMORS MAY BECOME REALITY WITH FED FIXES
Talk about a case of false hope. Rumors yesterday that the Federal Reserve might open the short-term borrowing window for Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae likely was just what executives...
ICAHN PROXY UPS ANTE FOR YAHOO!
Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn was expected to file his definitive proxy statement against Yahoo! last night in a sign that he's prepared to move forward with ousting the Internet...
A DESPICABLE ENEMY
There are moments that throw the nature of America's enemies into the sharpest possible relief. One such moment came this week, as the Army revealed that it had identified the...
CHARLIE RANGEL'S DEAL
It's good to be the dean - of the New York congressional delegation, that is. That much is clear from the Times' front-page disclosure that Rep. Charles Rangel has four...
PATERSON'S POWER PICKLE
When a state panel nixed a new power plant in Brooklyn last March, Gov. Paterson had been in office all of four days. No one could accuse him of denying...
DON'T EXPECT BRETT ON JETS
The Jets have no set starter at quarterback, and a Hall of Famer appears available. But don't expect Brett Favre to don a different type of green jersey this season....
CASHMAN EYES SEXSON
TORONTO - With his offensively challenged lineup sagging under the pressure of not having Johnny Damon and Hideki Matsui, Brian Cashman didn't discount looking into signing Richie Sexson when he...
BROKEN BATS
TORONTO - Forty minutes after Roy Halladay made the Yankees look silly, Derek Jeter paid him the biggest compliment a hitter can throw a pitcher. "He is the best starter...
FAVRE WANTS OUT OF GREEN BAY
The Giants, en route to their Super Bowl triumph, ended the brilliant career of Brett Favre when cornerback Corey Webster intercepted Favre's final pass in overtime of a rousing Giants...
CURLIN CLAIMING NEW TURF
Curlin, America's Horse of the Year in 2007 when he won six of nine starts, including the Preakness, Jockey Club Gold Cup and Breeders' Cup Classic, proved he's the best...
HONDO GOES FISHING
Hondo made a big score last night with the Orioles over the Sawx, which caused the wad to expand sig nificantly to a crisp 485 klippsteins. Tonight, he'll go Coastal...
SPORTS SHORTS
GOLF: Hole-in-one for Mickelson In Luss, Scotland, Phil Mickelson had a hole-in-one at the Scottish Open to make the cut yesterday and go into the weekend five strokes behind leader...
OLD GUARD-S BELIEVE IN MARBURY
At least two Knicks guards of the past think the embattled Knicks guard of the present, Stephon Marbury, can survive the transition to the Walsh-D'Antoni Era. Walt "Clyde" Frazier and...
PRESSURE POINT
LAS VEGAS - Stephon Marbury bounded off the Knicks' team bus at Vegas' Valley High last night - a new tattoo inscribed on his left temple. The "3" logo found...
ALL WRIGHT! DAVID'S AN NL ALL-STAR
The back door to the All-Star Game is as good an entrance as any for David Wright. Actually, the back door closed when Wright lost the fans' online vote to...
AMAZIN' RELIEVERS KNOW THEIR ROLES
WILLIE Randolph was barely over Denver on his long flight to the rest of his life when Jerry Manuel announced that for Mets relievers, their long guessing game was over....
FUENTES PREFERS YANKEES
Rockies closer Brian Fuentes heard enough rumors about a potential future with the Mets that he recently sought out Amazin's counterpart Billy Wagner for advice. The left-handed Fuentes can become...
METS SPARKED BY BACKUP POWER
Another day, another fill-in hero for the makeshift Mets. Damion Easley was the backup of the moment this time, drilling a two-out solo home run in the eighth inning to...
NEW-LOOK NETS ADD 2 FORWARDS
ORLANDO - The Nets might not be better, but they sure are going to be different. The team reached agreements in principle yesterday with free-agent forwards Eduardo Najera and Jarvis...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
It may have taken 30 years, but life may be finally imitating art on Martha's Vineyard. Officials in Edgartown shut down two beaches where scenes from "Jaws" were filmed in...
BALL'S ON!
READY to be the ultimate fan? Here are a few highlights you won't want to miss as FanFest continues at the Javits Center. (Unless noted otherwise, all programs are a...
LOVE OF THE GAME
THIS year's All-Star Game might be over in a few hours (unless there's extra innings), but the celebration leading up to the big game lasts for days. The 2008 DHL...
THE MASCOTS DUKE IT OUT
EVEN team mascots are getting into the All-Star hoopla - with a Home Run Derby of their own. Yesterday's first round resulted in a surprising upset for the hometown fans,...
PARADE AROUND
MAJOR League Baseball is bringing back its All-Star Game Red Carpet Parade - and it's better than ever before. From 1 to 3 p.m. on Tuesday, Hank Aaron, Yogi Berra,...
WHAT'S UP?
TODAY MAD HOT MIDSUMMER: Learn the basics from the best when Pierre Dulaine - star of "Mad Hot Ballroom" and the inspiration for "Take the Lead" - returns for Kids'...
LADY BASEBALL
LADY Liberty has never looked so good. Breaking out of her green copper gown, the Statue of Liberty can be seen all over NYC sporting the vivid colors and stripes...
PLAY BALL!
BATTER up, New York City! For the first time since 1977, the All-Star Game is coming to Yankee Stadium. And five days of baseball fun kicked off yesterday with the...
WORLD HISTORY
WHERE in the world is Iain Stewart? That could be anywhere. On any given day, he might be peering down into the bubbling mouth of a volcano in Ethiopia, exploring...
REAPING WHAT HE SHOWS
AFTER years of making hit music that often didn't get the respect it deserved, John Mellencamp has become one of the eloquent elder statesmen of American rock. At his Jones...
Bye Orlando, Hi New Guys...And Dumpy
By FRED KERBERORLANDO -- The Nets now have a deep bench. The starting unit is another matter.On the day they packed up and said goodbye to a hugely successful Summer...
Prospect Report for Thursday, July 10
We'll bring you an abbreviated prospect report tonight, as we prepare for what looks like it will be a beautiful weekend. First, though, I want to give you this link...