July 30, 2008
JETS' BAKER SAYS HE'S 'READY TO GO'
Jets tight end Chris Baker, unhappy with his contract and troubled by an injured back, said today he's ready to start practicing whenever he's cleared. "I've told the strength coach...
Mets alter Church's rehab
Right fielder Ryan Church will travel with the Mets to Houston and work out under the supervision of their training staff this weekend instead of staying behind in Florida on...
Game 108: Mets at Marlins
The NL East-leading Mets go for the series win here in Miami tonight when Mike Pelfrey (pictured) takes on the Marlins in the rubber match at Dolphin Stadium. Pelfrey is...
'The Polar Express' Goes 4-D
I thought "The Polar Express'' (2004) was awfully creepy as a 3-D IMAX movie, so I shudder at the thought of Bob Zemeckis' ginormous animated holiday extravaganza with the voices...
It's a Little Late in the Game for Both Favre and the Jets
By Jay GreenbergThe longer the Jets "fact find", the smaller the chance Brett Favre is coming to them becuase the less sense bringing in him makes.Favre is said to be...
YANKEES CRUSH ORIOLES, 13-3
There was a big change off the field today for the Yankees, but a big change on the field as well. On an afternoon in which they acquired future Hall-of-Fame...
YANKEES ACQUIRE PUDGE RODRIGUEZ FOR FARNSWORTH
The man who played an immense role in Joba Chamberlain's conversion was involved in another whopping Yankees gamble today. Without Kyle Farnsworth's brilliant late-inning work after Chamberlain became a starter...
MSG SPORTS' PRESIDENT MILLS DEMOTED
Isiah Thomas has gone from being the face of the Knicks to virtual irrelevance and now his former boss is in a similar position. Steve Mills is out as president...
Grand Opening: A thrift store with a cause!
If you're looking for the latest thrift store or a new place to donate your old duds, check out Cure Thrift Store. The brand new shop opened its doors on...
ALLEGED HOOKER, PIMP ARRESTED IN POSH N.J. HOOD
A hooker and her pimp who are accused of operating in a posh New Jersey neighborhood were arrested in a two-month string called "Operation Net-Vet Harlot," according to a report....
Carr along for the ride
By PAUL SCHWARTZALBANY – David Carr made it out to the field once again, this time wearing the proper cleats and not the turf shoes he wore in his first...
Deal of the Day-Hollywould
Looking for a sassy dress that will look amazing on a Hamptons-tanned body at Surf Lodge in Montauk?Pick up this White Leaf Genevieve Dress from Hollywould.Originally $445 and now $195,...
Scene-NYC streets
Urban Studies student Sterling Poole carries a vintage Coach bag, wears a Pierre Cardin vintage tie with a vintage tie clip and Sam and Libby vintage shoes."Totally androgynous, neither here...
Woody's Latest Gets a Title
Woody Allen's first New York-set production in five years is going to be called "Whatever Works.'' The "blackish'' comedy, starring Larry David as a presumed Woody surrogate opposite presumed romantic...
Scene-NYC streets
Nicole Lammann, who works in the Beauty industry, wears a second-hand washed, silk dress by Tucker, shoes from Strawberry, a vintage belt, and a bag by Chris Kon from Century...
ON DECK: METS AT MARLINS
The Mets bullpen shut the door in last night's 4-1 win over the Marlins, but too often this season they have failed to lock it up. The relievers cost the...
'SYTYCD' Chat: Comfort and Will
After being blessed with a second chance, 20-year-old hip-hopper Comfort, a Nigerian college student from Texas, was sent packing yet again. But in a surprise elimination, 21-year-old contemporary dancer Will...
MILLS REASSIGNED IN GARDEN SHAKEUP
Isiah Thomas has gone from being the face of the Knicks to virtual irrelevance, and now his former boss is in a similar position. Steve Mills is out as president...
Bye-bye Buchmann
Q104 is losing Bob Buchmann, its longtime program director and on-air personality.Buchmann, who joined Q104 when it changed formats to classic rock in 1999, decided not to renew his contract....
Dahl back at safety
BY PAUL SCHWARTZALBANY -- Remember Craig Dahl?Well, the Giants certainly do, as they brought him back, signing him after he made a remarkably swift recovery from reconstructive knee surgery. Dahl,...
Coverage in today's Post
The Mets bounced back from a series-opening loss while Carlos Delgado stayed scorching hot in 4-1 win over the Marlins on Tuesday night. The Amazin's, who maintained their slim lead...
Starr Report: Food record
Last Sunday's season finale of "The Next Food Network Star" snared a record 4 million viewers (10 p.m.) to become the most-watched telecast in Food Network history. Winner Aaron McCargo...
ROCKEFELLER IMPOSTER'S DRIVER SAYS SHE WAS UNWITTING ACCOMPLICE
The Boston-area woman who spirited the Rockefeller imposter and his 7-year-old daughter to Manhattan said this morning she was an unwitting accomplice and that the child showed no signs of...
MAN SHOT TO DEATH EXECUTION STYLE ON STATEN ISLAND
A Staten Island restaurant owner was shot to death execution style early this morning, according to reports. Frank Fresca, the 66-year-old owner of Fresca's on the Bay restaurant, was found...
AIR SUPPLY: Showers in the forecast
Interesting times, we live in -- people who never fly are suddenly experts on the troubles faced by the airline industry. If there is no such thing as bad publicity,...
FIFA Orders Clubs to Release Players for Olympic Duty
FIFA ruled Wednesday that club teams must allow players 23 or under to play at the Beijing Olympics if they've been called up by their national federations, clearing the path...
Box Office: Mummy Poised to Push TDK Off His Perch
There's all sorts of wild speculation out there about "The Dark Knight'' unseating "Titanic'' as the all-time domestic box-office grosser. But as Steve Mason at Fantasy Moguls correctly points out,...
DUPRE'S IN THE DOGHOUSE, AGAIN
THE ISSUE: The front-page coverage of Ashley Dupre's affair with a married man. Is it only my wife and I who think that Alisa Earle is so much prettier than...
PROBING THE EX-GOV: DID ELIOT GET OFF EASY?
THE ISSUE: The Public Integrity Commission's findings on the Troopergate scandal. As a NY taxpayer and citizen of this country, I have to thank you for your uncovering and exposing...
'JUST LIKE US': O'S CELEB STRATEGY
YOU couldn't pass a grocery store line this weekend without seeing the picture-perfect smiles of the Obama family. There were Barack Obama's young daughters (whose privacy their parents so sanctimoniously...
COURTING DISASTER
AS New York's all-important financial industry faces what could be years of lower profits and fewer jobs, the city and state face multibillion-dollar deficits - and the temptation to fix...
A SICK SALUTE
THIS month, ESPN awarded Tommie Smith and John Car los the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the ESPYs (the sports network's equivalent of the Oscars) for their once-infamous black-power salutes...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Tue.: 642; Lucky Sum: 12 / Midday Win-4 Tue.: 6733; Lucky Sum: 19 / Evening Nos. Tue: 710; Lucky Sum: 8 / Evening Win-4 Tue.: 3907;...
LA QUAKE CALAMITY! CELLPHONE KNOCKOUT
LOS ANGELES - A wall-rattling earthquake shook Southern California yesterday, but a few busted windows and rolling terrain were nothing compared with the loss of cell signals for the phone-crazed...
BANKER IN $5M EMBEZZLE BUST
A banker was busted on charges of embezzling more than $5 million from wealthy customers at JPMorgan and UBS - but his lawyer says he was just following orders from...
LABORING VS. O RUMORS
WASHINGTON - The AFL-CIO is blanketing battleground states with new fliers aiming to knock down false rumors about Barack Obama's religion and claims about his patriotism. "Does he wear a...
STONE IN KARM'$ WAY
The bad "karma" keeps rolling for Sharon Stone, as more than 1,000 Chinese earthquake victims and a New York lawyer are demanding a $1 billion pay-out - or maybe just...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Brooklyn Sanford Berman, 77, was staying with his wife at the Marriott Brooklyn Bridge when the 56-year-old maid finished cleaning their room at 4:15 p.m. Saturday, cops said. Berman allegedly...
9/11 CON HID IN PLAIN (WEB) SITE
An up-and-coming Internet gossip blogger covering the Los Angeles gay scene has been outed as a fugitive scam artist who ripped off charities with a phony tale of a lover...
'BOOZY BASHER' AT HUDSON HOTEL
They were two ships bumping in the night, but the encounter was anything but romantic. Instead, one boozy patron at the bar of the Hudson Hotel hurled three glasses at...
COP UNION'S SPIN ON BIKE TACKLER
The rookie NYPD officer videotaped viciously knocking a cyclist off his bike during a Times Square demonstration was just acting "under direct orders" and was trying to protect himself, the...
007 IN A FIX OVER TOWNHOUSE
Sean Connery's downstairs neighbors are proving to be a bigger headache for the former James Bond than Dr. No, Blofeld and Goldfinger combined. The lawyer for the actor's family was...
CRISIS PUTS NY IN 'SELL' HELL
ALBANY - Warning of an approaching economic calamity, Gov. Paterson yesterday called an emergency session of the state Legislature - and raised the specter that New York may have to...
BOATER DIES A HERO
A computer whiz on a boat ride with four childhood pals saved their lives by calling 911 from under the craft after it capsized in the dark on the Hudson...
STINKIN' STATION TOILETS GET ROYAL FLUSH
A survey of subway toilets found that nearly all the loos in Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan stations were either locked or so poorly stocked and maintained that they were virtually...
ALIASES MADE EX FEAR HER CROCK FELLER
The wife of the phony New York "Rockefeller" who allegedly kidnapped their 7-year-old daughter grew so suspicious of his bizarre name game that she feared for the child's safety, authorities...
BUILDING COSTS SOARING
The cost of construction in the Big Apple has risen faster than the city's skyline - 32 percent in just three years, due to the high price of local labor,...
WEINER TAKES LIFEGUARD STAND
It seems everywhere Congressman Anthony Weiner goes, there's a bevy of babes surrounding him. Two toned and tanned lifeguards netted his attention as he hit the shore to announce a...
HOU$E WOE IN HAMPTONS
Hamptons residential real estate is tanking while its luxury market thrives. The latest quarterly report from the East End shows the median home price has slipped 11.8 percent to $970,000...
2ND VIDEO GIVES NYPD BLACK EYE
The day after a video emerged of a cop knocking a cyclist to the ground, a second tape surfaced yesterday, showing an NYPD officer whaling away at a man's legs...
'W' - AS IN WORST SUBWAY AROUND
The W is the worst subway line in the system, a new report claims. The lower Manhattan-to-Astoria local scored a weak 70 cents - out of a possible $2 -...
DNA MYSTERY SOLVED
To authorities and defense lawyers, he was "Male A" - the mystery man who threatened to derail a murder prosecution when his DNA turned up, unexplained, on a bathroom sink...
FAT CAT
That is one fat cat! Meet Princess Chunk, a 44-pound hunk of feline flesh, a cat so big that she needs a bathtub for a litter box. Volunteers at a...
NET RESULT AT THE STADIUM
What a catch! This fan reaching for a foul ball last night at the Yankee-Oriole game apparently lost his balance at the Stadium and fell into the netting below his...
SHARPE JAMES JAILED
Former Newark Mayor Sharpe James was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison yesterday - far less than the 20 years prosecutors sought - for his role in the cut-rate...
'HOMELESS' MAN WANTED JUDGE DEAD
A Long Island man who lost his house to his ex-wife in divorce proceedings plotted to kill the judge who gave it away, a court heard yesterday. Brian Orkiszewski, already...
PREGNANT QNS. TEACH LOSES
A Brooklyn judge ruled yesterday that a church was fully within its rights to can a teacher because the single mother got pregnant out of wedlock. Federal Judge Dora Irizarry...
A SHORE THING
Long Island's Jones Beach is riding high on the waves and The Bronx's Orchard Beach is just a festering undertow, according to a new study. The Natural Resources Defense Council,...
JUDGE THROWS A 'PASS' AT REF
The rogue referee who rocked the NBA with a gambling scandal - and even bet on his own games - was given a sweetheart sentence yesterday by a federal judge...
METROCARD MESS
For the second straight day, malfunctions disrupted credit- and debit-card purchases at MetroCard vending machines, rejecting riders who tried to pay with plastic. Worse, some unlucky riders got charged for...
$5 MILLION DOORMAN SHOWN THE DOOR
The door's been slammed on the richest doorman in the city. After a six-week soap opera that saw Richie Randazzo win $5 million in the lottery, get a warning about...
GEM-ROB TERROR
A Long Island man - robbed yesterday of $500,000 worth of jewelry yesterday while on a sales trip to Arkansas - may have been the victim of thieves who have...
STRINGER'S SONY PLAN STAMMERS
Sony Corp. boss Howard Stringer's efforts to turn around the media and electronics giant have hit a snag. The company yesterday slashed it profit expectations for its current fiscal year...
MERRILL TRIMS TOXIC PAPER; STOCK JUMPS
Merrill Lynch's shares enjoyed a big lift yesterday after its CEO John Thain announced plans to raise some $8.5 billion in debt and offload tens of billions in toxic mortgage...
A DIFFERENT TUNE
After paying mega-millions to Madonna, Jay-Z, Shakira and Nickelback for the rights to distribute their respective future albums, Live Nation is now talking about outsourcing the job back to one...
LOSING A SMALL FORTUNE
ANOTHER round of cuts has hit Fortune, this time at its little sister title, Fortune Small Business. Known by the initials FSB, the magazine is axing 14 of its 17...
DOWNED SATELLITE
Analysts and investors are divided over whether the creation of Sirius XM Radio is a death knell or a lifeline for the satellite radio industry. With yesterday's closing has come...
SOMER-SET ON MACKLOWE BLDG.
ANOTHER of the Macklowe Properties' dominoes is heading to a greener pasture. This week, Somerset Partners is teeing up to acquire 527 Madison Ave. for around $260 million, or $1,100...
BANK RALLY IGNITES REST OF MARKET
Wall Street and its battered banks finally enjoyed a hopeful day to break its slump. Stocks rallied on three events of good news - banks are purging healthy amounts of...
YAHOO! AIN'T EASY 'PICKENS' FOR BOONE
Oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens learned the hard way that it's not always a good idea to bet alongside fellow billionaire Carl Icahn - especially when it involves tech companies....
MERVYN'S STORES FILE BANKRUPTCY
California-based department-store chain Mervyn's filed for bankruptcy, blaming the housing downturn and tighter credit that has hit consumer spending across the Southwest. Confirming a July 22 report in The Post...
A WRIST-SLAP FOR SHARPE
Former Newark Mayor Sharpe James was looking at as many as 20 years in prison when he walked into US District Court Judge William Martini's courtroom yesterday. He got 27...
THE GOV'S FINE TALK
Gov. Paterson had not even given his "hard times in New York" speech last night before the special pleaders were whining up a storm. "There's no way on God's green...
ANOTHER MTA WARNING SIGNAL
Before MTA chief Eliot Sander socks commuters with another fare hike or two, he might want to figure out how to collect the fares he's already charging. Credit- and debit-card...
ARROGANT CYCLISTS A DEADLY HELL ON WHEELS
IT'S murder out there if you like to walk. The bike people won't repeat this. But those who enjoy hoofing it on city streets stand a good chance of experiencing...
GRIM DAVE SEEMS ALL TALK BUT NO ACTION
ALBANY - Gov. Paterson last night candidly laid out the harsh realities of New York's deteriorating financial condition - but he was largely silent when it came to proposing the...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
What would Weird but True be without a sasquatch sighting? Two Ontario women said they spotted the legendary mystery creature while picking blueberries approximately 150 miles northeast of Winnipeg. "It...
UP IN THE AIR: THE STORY OF THE WRIGHT BROTHERS
Written and illustrated by Brian Floca STORY SO FAR: After their wind-tunnel tests, Wilbur and Orville are ready to build a new glider, one they hope will overcome the many...
COLD WAR
HOT enough for you? No, seriously, is it? Then it's probably too cold for your co-worker, who, if you haven't noticed, is wearing a parka indoors. In July. Now that...
HOT OR NOT, ALWAYS STAY STYLISH
LET'S be frank: The real victims in the AC wars are women - and their outfits. Nothing ruins a meticulously put-together ensemble faster than a grungy office sweater. Fret not,...
'SAN FRANCISCO' MAKES COMEBACK
ADD this one to the "why?" category. CBS is developing a remake of "The Streets of San Francisco," the '70s era ABC cop drama starring Michael Douglas and Karl Malden...
'BABY,' IT'S YOU
TONIGHT, you will see some thing on TV that will make you rub your eyes in disbelief - old people! They're the most under-represented group on TV, and the seniors...
STARR REPORT
Last Sunday's season finale of "The Next Food Network Star" snared a record 4 million viewers (10 p.m.) to become the most-watched telecast in Food Network history. Winner Aaron McCargo...
'MONTANA' SPLIT
MILEY Cyrus is saying that her days as Hannah Montana are nearly over. But the Disney Channel is saying not so fast, blondie. Cyrus - arguably the biggest star in...
'NCIS' VICTIM OF RANT
'HI I'm Coyote Shivers, and I'm a rapist and a kidnapper." That's how the indie rocker is responding in two videos posted on YouTube to his TV star ex-wife's allegations...
ALL THAT JAZZ
CLINTON Hill, Brooklyn, is the kind of neighborhood where neighbors gossip on street corners, children race scooters and sidewalk chalk messages advertise stoop sales. It's not the sort of place...
GREAT BLACK WAY
HE'S white, he's 61 and he recently came out as an NPR-hating conservative. But if David Mamet is trying to be labeled "a square," he's failing miserably. The celebrated writer...
A TONIC TO GIN LANE
IF Scarpetta lacks the luxury of L'Impero and Alto, it sure beats Gin Lane, its ill-fated predecessor at 355 W. 14th St. Many dishes read - and taste - much...
THE ITALIAN JOB
JUST in time to rain on Scott Conant's Scarpetta parade on West 14th Street, his estranged former partners uptown made a splash twice in the past week - relaunching L'Impero...
GHOLSTON FEELING JET ROOKIE PAINS
Vernon Gholston is being realistic, even if his goals for the time being probably won't excite Jets fans. "I always have high expectations for myself," Gholston said. "Maybe it comes...
CHAD: NO REASON TO WORRY
Chad Pennington doesn't know his status with the Jets, but he insisted yesterday he's not upset with the lack of a decision, as well as the team's possible pursuit of...
ZITO STILL DOWN ON FAKE DIRT
SARATOGA SPRINGS - When the New York State Task Force on Retired Racehorses held a forum yesterday on synthetic racing surfaces at the Fasig-Tipton sales pavilion here, Nick Zito sat...
'DEWEY' 2-5 FOR HAMBO
Deweycheatumnhowe will be looking to become the first colt in harness racing history to remain undefeated and capture the sport's biggest prize, the $1.5 million Hambletonian at the Meadowlands Racetrack...
DYNASKI WORTH WAIT
SARATOGA SPRINGS - Canceled last week due to rain and a too soggy turf course, the meet's first steeplechase comes back today with basically the same field. And I like...
LIFE'S NO FUN ON SKID ROW
SO Joe Girardi believes that Joba Chamberlain, who gets the ball today, is the right man for the job. No doubt he is if the job isn't necessarily ending a...
HUGHES SHARP IN REHAB START
Phil Hughes made his first rehab game appearance last night and apparently didn't have much of a problem. Hughes pitched three shutout innings for Charleston (S.C.) in low A-ball, allowing...
DAMON FEELS ALL RIGHT IN LEFT
Johnny Damon started in left field for the Yankees' 7-6 loss to the Orioles last night, his first appearance in the field since coming off the DL on July 21....
BOMBERS' WISH: GO WEST, YOUNG MANNY!
First, they beat Tampa Bay to Xavier Nady and Damaso Marte. Now, the Yankees are pulling for the Dodgers to get Manny Ramirez out of Boston. If Ramirez goes West...
YANKS CONTINUE BIRD DROPPING
The first comeback stalled in the eighth inning, but the Yankees mounted another one in the ninth. Another stalled one. "Unfortunately the game got away in the seventh," manager Joe...
TEIXEIRA TRADE COULD MARK DOOM FOR YANKS
THE Angels have knocked the Yankees out of the playoffs twice in the past seven years, and now they might just keep the Yanks from the postseason altogether. That is...
COUGHLIN SHINES IN NEW LIGHT
ALBANY - The other day, while sitting around with a bunch of his new teammates, Renaldo Wynn glanced up and saw Tom Coughlin standing before him. What happened next absolutely...
RUSTY CARR HAS ROUGH RIDE
ALBANY - David Carr's second practice for the Giants wasn't much better than his first. He continues to look rusty, which comes as no great surprise, considering he missed the...
MARTINEZ IS PITCHIN' FOR MANNY DEAL
MIAMI - Manny a Met? Make it happen! So say Pedro Martinez and Sandy Alomar Jr., two former teammates of Manny Ramirez now with the Mets who feel the mercurial...
MAINE MRI SHOWS ROTATOR-CUFF WOE
MIAMI - The news on John Maine sounds ominous, even as the Mets claim otherwise. An MRI exam in New York late yesterday showed that Maine suffered what the Mets...
AMAZIN' REBOUND
After trying to bunt, of all things, Carlos Delgado decided he wasn't going to leave this one for the Mets' bullpen to chance. With the Amazin's and their hold on...
NETS ROOKIES READY TO LEAD
A radical roster makeover in the past six months has moved the Nets into full-fledged rebuilding mode. And that suits New Jersey's trio of rookies just fine. With Jason Kidd,...
HONDO'S TRIO GRAND
Hondo, who'd been on a three-game schneid, stopped the bleeding last night with his shrewd Tiger selection, which moved the earnings onward and upward to 730 womacks. Tonight, the Trey...
SPORTS SHORTS
NBA: Artest to Houston? The Rockets are close to an agreement to acquire Ron Artest from Sacramento. The Rockets will give up guard Bobby Jackson, who played for the Kings...
BIG EAST WILL HAVE BIG SHOES TO FILL
NEWPORT, R.I. - When Mike Tranghese was hired as the Big East Conference's first full-time employee in 1979, he worked out of a two-office suite subleased from the Providence public...
MANNY RAMIREZ TRADED TO DODGERS
Manny Ramirez is finally out of Boston, out of the AL East and no longer a Yankees nemesis in 2008 -- unless the Dodgers and Yankees reach the World Series....
2ND VIDEO GIVES NYPD BLACK EYE
The day after a video emerged of a cop knocking a cyclist to the ground, a second video alleging police brutality surfaced today in which an NYPD officer is seen...
Maine has strained rotator cuff
An MRI exam in New York today showed that John Maine (pictured) suffered a mild strain of his right rotator cuff. The Mets are listing him as day-to-day, as per...