July 5, 2008
THE GREAT ESCAPE
Sitting in the clubhouse, Mike Mussina understood very early in the final inning that Mariano Rivera was going to take everybody in the Yankees Universe for a bumpy ride. When...
MATERIAL BROTHER DISHES DIRT
Madonna's troubled marriage to moviemaker Guy Ritchie is hanging on by a thread - thanks only to the intervention of a mystery rabbi, the Material Mom's brother reveals in a...
Game 87: Mets at Phillies
The Mets will try to bounce back tonight from Fridayâs maddening loss here at Citizens Bank Park when John Maine takes on left-hander Jamie Moyer and the rival Phillies. Maine...
PEPPERS, NOT JUST TOMATOES, EYED IN OUTBREAK
Government investigators now suspect jalapeno peppers instead of tomatoes as the leading suspect behind the record salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds around the country. Faced with conflicting evidence about...
BRAVEST HEROIC IN BOAT RESCUE
Two firefighters from the FDNY Marine Unit made a daring rescue in violent waters on the Fourth of July when a party boat watching fireworks ran aground on a rock...
BATTERED FAN SUES THE METS
A Mets fan has put the city on notice that he intends to file a $5.5 million lawsuit for a Aug. 8, 2007, flying-bat incident at Shea Stadium that left...
Coverage in today's Post
The Mets kept up their distressing pattern of precious little run support for Johan Santana (pictured) in an agonizing, 3-2 road loss to the rival Phillies on Friday. It wasn't...
Scene-NYC streets
French law student Anne-Sophie Lemonnier wears a dress with back button detail from Pinky Otto, shoes from Paris, a Vanessa Bruno bag and a cute H&M flower bracelet."I wear nothing...
Duhon a risk too
By MARC BERMANBull insiders are stunned the Knicks bumped their two-year offer to the full midlevel exception for a career backup in Chris Duhon, who also has a penchant for...
WTC OR BUST: WHY CAN'T WE BUILD?
THE ISSUE: The ongoing challenges and delays facing reconstruction at Ground Zero. The news about the World Trade Center's latest delays and cost overruns is neither surprising nor unexpected ("Big...
CLARK VEEP BID INJURED BY INSULT
RETIRED Gen. Wesley Clark, whose stock as Sen. Barack Obama's possible vice presidential running mate had been rising, may have ruined his chances with his belittling attack on Sen. John...
PIN O ON THE DONKEY
HOPING that the third time really is the charm, the McCain campaign has had yet another staff shakeup. As befits a press corps and GOP professional class always eager to...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Fri.: 678; Lucky Sum: 21 / Midday Win-4 Fri.: 9222; Lucky Sum: 15 / Evening Nos. Fri: 506; Lucky Sum: 11 / Evening Win-4 Fri.: 3632;...
IDOL OF RIGHT IS DEAD
Jesse Helms, the blunt North Carolina senator who became a conservative idol and anti-Communist hero, died on the Fourth of July. Helms, 86, who had been in ill health for...
GIT ALONG, LI'L DOGGY!
Meet Whiplash - the rodeo monkey from Big Spring, Texas, who wows the crowd before bull-riding shows by saddling up on a border collie. PHOTO GALLERY The spectacle is the...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Staten Island The teacher at PS 52 in Dongan Hills discovered the theft after the ceremony on May 29. Police determined a credit card of hers had been used at...
GOING TO BAT FOR THE BABE
Babe Ruth's family is pushing the Bambino's little-known civil-rights activism in a bid to convince baseball officials to retire the number he wore - No. 3 - across Major League...
MOB ATTACK ON QNS. MAN
An angry mob swinging fists and a chain left an unidentified 22-year-old man clinging to life on a Queens street early yesterday, police said. Cops said the man had just...
WET, WHITE AND BLUE
Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers and tourists turned out last night for the city's most spectacular show - the annual Macy's Fourth of July fireworks display that lit up...
WASHES AND WAXES WANE
Drivers can no longer afford to practice good hygiene. At West Side Highway Car Wash in Midtown, business has been off about 30 percent, manager Simi Ben said. Even the...
BUN-TWO PUNCH FOR FRANK-EE DOODLE
After 10 minutes and a record 59 hot dogs, there was still no clear wiener at yesterday's annual Nathan's eating competition in Coney Island - sending it to a first-ever...
'TIS QUITE THE LYRICAL BARGAIN
A $10 flea-market picture of some flowers proved far more valuable when original handwritten lyrics to the patriotic song "My Country 'Tis of Thee" turned up in the picture's backing,...
HOTEL-LEVY UPHEAVAL
An administrative law judge has overturned a provision of the city's hotel tax and awarded American Airlines more than $200,000 in a decision that could have far-reaching implications for the...
BOY DROWNS IN QNS. POOL
An 8-year-old boy drowned last night in a Queens pool during a family party after apparently suffering a seizure, sources said. The tragic child had been sitting by the pool...
SALTY CAPT. COOK
Disgraced hubby Peter Cook yesterday took a snarky swipe at soon-to-be-ex Christie Brinkley - who later rushed into the comforting arms of her ex, Billy Joel. Cook, dressed in an...
BUSINESSES 'TANKING'
High gas prices aren't just leaving drivers' wallets running on empty - from the MTA to the local carwash, businesses that depend on car traffic are rapidly going bust. After...
HOLIDAY PROFIT MECHA-NIXED
High gas prices have thrown a wrench into the mechanic business. "This time of year should be crazy," said Sam Garcia (pictured), manager of Manhattan Auto Care, on Delancey Street....
BONJOUR! C-ROD A HAPPY SINGLE
With a scandalous storm swirling around her, A-Rod's wife was the face of calm in Paris, beaming with smiles outside rocker Lenny Kravitz's pad as her marriage to baseball's top...
HELL ON WHEELS
A bomb-laden van found on a Brooklyn street by a car thief was wired to detonate by remote control, and had likely been sitting there for more than five months,...
SERB THUG 'WILL NOT BE BACK'
A fugitive Serb basketball player charged with bashing in a Brooklyn man's skull fled to his homeland "because he doesn't believe in the American justice system," his lawyer said yesterday....
FIRE-JERKS ARRESTED
Would-be revelers saw their private July Fourth pyrotechnic plans blow up as Staten Island cops bagged a cache of illegal fireworks with an estimated street value of $17,000, police said...
BUILDING IM BUZZ
When Twitter asks the question, "What are you doing?" a growing number of companies answer: building buzz. Eager to jump on the next Web 2.0 phenomenon, companies are flocking to...
LEHMAN'S SUMMER STOCK MAY FLOP
Lehman Brothers CEO Dick Fuld's attempt to keep his employees at the troubled investment bank by offering them mid-year bonuses could end up backfiring on him. That's because the plan,...
ONE YEAR ON
It was one year ago today that Post State Editor Fredric U. Dicker broke the news that then-Gov. Eliot Spitzer had set the State Police on Senate Majority Leader Joe...
JUSTICE FOR DICK GRASSO
New York's claims against former New York Stock Exchange head Richard Grasso are now moot, thanks to a pair of court rulings that Attorney General Andrew Cuomo properly has decided...
LIBS READY FOR MERCURY
The annual Fourth of July pyrotechnics were last night, but some more fireworks may be on tap tonight at the US Airways Center in Phoenix. The Liberty visit the Mercury...
OFFENSE IS OFFENSIVE
JOE Girardi can scream behind a closed clubhouse door. Hank Steinbrenner can deliver pseudo threats/pep talks from his Tampa enclave. It is all merely background noise, the soundtrack of frustration...
FARCE OF JULY
This is what it has come to with the Yankees: They point to the positives within a defeat that included the possibility of Johnny Damon landing on the disabled list....
STARTING TO WORRY
CALCULATED would not describe any attempt to scream a turnaround into your team just before having to pitch Darrell Rasner against Josh Beckett. No, Joe Girardi's anger was real. So...
CASH: BLAME ME FOR DEAD BATS SOCIETY
The Yankees' architect shoulders the blame for a lineup that was supposed to be loaded with juice becoming as dry as dust. "It's been inefficient," GM Brian Cashman said before...
BOSOX'S BULLPEN SPARKLES
Red Sox reliever Manny Delcarmen, coming off an outing in which he didn't retire anybody, entered in a bases-loaded situation in the seventh inning yesterday with one thought: Alex Rodriguez....
RASNER FALLS SHORT
Darrell Rasner loaded the bases with one out in the top of the first inning yesterday before getting out of trouble without giving up a run. Whatever momentum he may...
BIG PLAY GIVES DAMON BIG PAIN - AND MAY MEAN DL
Johnny Damon's injured left shoulder likely will cost him at least a few games. It's possible it may also put him on the disabled list. Damon hurt himself yesterday when...
HERE WE GO AGAIN!
WIMBLEDON - Add up all of Roger Federer's greatness on grass courts, and the numbers are striking: 40 wins in a row at Wimbledon, 65 overall on the surface. Now...
GOUCHER'S MIND IS BACK ON TRACK
EUGENE, Ore - Four years ago, Queens-born Kara Goucher was mentally and emotionally broken down, facing a crisis of confidence and the reality that she had bitterly grown to hate...
HONDO EYES PURR-FECTO
Hondo dealt himself a losing hand last night with the Cards, which caused a few dead presidents to be deleted from his still bulging bankroll. Tonight, with 570 tracewskis in...
SPORTS SHORTS
MLB: Francoeur sent to minors Slumping Braves outfielder Jeff Francoeur was sent to the minors to work on his hitting, with his average having dropped to .234. Francoeur was booed...
CRISP PLAY BEATS TRAP
Coco Crisp was "surprised." And "stunned." And "shocked." He was certain he caught Derek Jeter's drive to center in the ninth inning. Only umpire Wally Bell ruled it a trap,...
DUHON AGREES TO KNICK DEAL
The Knicks made fireworks on July 4th , getting their prime free-agent point-guard target - Bulls backup Chris Duhon, who agreed to terms yesterday on a two-year deal for as...
LACK OF SUPPORT GETS OUT OF 'HAN
PHILADELPHIA - Now this is getting ridiculous. In what is becoming a broken record, the Mets left Johan Santana with nothing to show for yet another superb pitching performance last...
ACE NOT BOTHERED BY HOOK
PHILADELPHIA - Johan Santana wasn't about to second-guess Jerry Manuel for taking him out after eight superb innings last night. Santana, though, might have been the only one. Manuel's decision...
MANUEL MOVES MAKE YOU SCRATCH YOUR HEAD
PHILADELPHIA - The honeymoon lasted all of 16 games - eight of them wins, eight of them losses. That was Jerry Manuel's New York internship, his apprenticeship, his postgraduate fellowship....
WEIRD BUT TRUE
They may be hundreds of years late, but they were just in time for the Fourth of July. A Benjamin Franklin impersonator married an actress who plays Betsy Ross in...
WE'RE OUTTA HERE!
DO prices at the pump have you rethinking the family summer road trip? Get out of town! Seriously - there are some great day trips within two hours or so...
WHAT'S UP?
TODAY PATRIOT GAMES: Whether you missed yesterday's fireworks or just want to see more, the New York Philharmonic's first-ever concert on Governors Island should get you all fired up. We're...
COOL HAND LUKE
SOMEBODY save the beautiful, young widow! The tax man is coming to take her land and throw her and her young son out of their home so the mean (pick...
MILLION 'WHEEL'
'WHEEL of Fortune" is getting into the millionaires club this fall. The show will add a wedge onto the famous wheel. If a contestant lands on it and eventually makes...
'WANTED' SHOW FOR ADOPTEES
'FIND My Family," a new Aus tralian show where adopted children use TV to find their natural parents, might just be on its way to America. Negotiations are underway with...