September 17, 2008
Game 151: Mets at Nationals
WASHINGTON -- Losers of three in a row and four of their past five, the reeling Mets try to stop the bleeding here tonight when spot starter Brandon Knight takes...
Yankees join with law enforcement
The Yankees have partnered with law enforcement agencies in an effort to prevent fans from taking mementos from Yankee Stadium with five games remaining.According to a press release, "Damaging the...
Easley might be out for good
WASHINGTON -- The injury news just keeps getting worse for the Mets. One day after outfielder Fernando Tatis was lost for the season due to a separated shoulder, Jerry Manuel...
Reggie Hodges now punter
The Jets have signed punter Reggie Hodges to the active roster and punter Waylon Prather to the practice squad today.Hodges (6-0, 235; Ball State) has punted in eight NFL games,...
BARACK REBUFFS LOHAN'S CAMPAIGN OFFER
Barack Obama's campaign reportedly rebuffed efforts by Lindsay Lohan to stump for the Democratic nominee. The Chicago Sun-Times reported that Lohan offered to host campaign events geared toward younger voters....
WAMU CLOSE TO HIRING GOLDMAN SACHS TO EXPLORE SALE
Washington Mutual is close to hiring investment bank Goldman Sachs as an adviser as it mulls its strategic options, including a sale of the ailing savings and loan, The Post...
Individual tickets on sale Saturday
The Rangers announced today that tickets for the 2008-09 season home games will go on-sale on Saturday, September 20 beginning at Noon on Ticketmaster via newyorkrangers.com, Ticketmaster charge-by-phone, (212) 307-7171,...
DYLAN REVEALED AS BABY DADDY ON '90210'
Dylan--you dog! Dylan McKay was revealed as little Sammy's baby daddy on last night's "90210"--when Kelly Taylor finally ended one of the new show's early mysteries (in a parking lot,...
NEXT UP: BENGALS
The Bengals come into the Meadowlands looking like one of the worst teams in football. They lost their opener 17-10 to a Ravens team led by rookie quarterback Joe Flacco...
Giants not letting down
By PAUL SCHWARTZFor the second consecutive week, the Giants prepare for a game hearing how lousy the opponent is. Last week, it was the Rams, coming off a 38-3 opening-game...
NEXT UP: CHARGERS
It could be worse for the Jets. They could be in the position the Chargers are in this week - 0-2 and coming off a heart-wrenching loss. The game against...
Mets release 2009 schedule
The Mets released their preliminary schedule for 2009, the inaugural year at Citi Field. They will open their home schedule Monday, April 13, at 7:10 p.m. when they play the...
Full Yankees 2009 schedule
Here is the Yankees' preliminary 2009 schedule as released by the team:
Yankees release 2009 schedule
From the YankeesThe Yankees will play their first regular season home game in the new Yankee Stadium on Thursday, April 16, 2009, vs. the Cleveland Indians, according to a preliminary...
Betty's 'New York State of Mind'
What better soundtrack for America Ferrera's Betty to take on the Big Apple than to the tune of "New York, New York," sung by the cast of "Ugly Betty."The bicoastal...
ON DECK: WHITE SOX AT YANKEES
Even if Philip Hughes gets his first win of the year tonight, it will be too late to get the Yankees into the playoffs. Hughes and Ian Kennedy were expected...
RBNY's Juan Carlos Osorio: "This is the biggest game of our season''
By BRIAN LEWISRed Bulls coach Juan Carlos Osorio isn't prone to hyperbole, so when he calls tomorrow's game at Columbus the biggest tilt of the year, that must count for...
RBNY's Dave van den Bergh flies to Munich for hernia surgery
By BRIAN LEWISIf Red Bulls winger Dave van den Bergh didnât have surgery to repair his sports hernia this week, he wouldâve had to risk missing the playoffs by waiting...
DREAM COME TRUE FOR LONGTIME BASEBALL MAN
To see Tony Franklin on the field at Yankee Stadium yesterday was like watching a kid who was given free reign in a candy store. For 39 years, Franklin toiled...
Deal of the Day-Shop Intuition
The motorcycle jacket is key for fall whether youâre wearing sweet frocks or natty trousers.But if youâre not a leather lady, this Fillmore Motorcycle Jacket will do the trick.Itâs lightweight,...
Starr Report: 'Why Jerry Deserves an Emmy'
Jerry Springer wants you to help him win his elusive Daytime Emmy. Springer, who kicks off the 18th season of "The Jerry Springer Show" Monday, is bent on winning the...
MAN ON TRIAL FOR CAT CRUELTY
The fur and accusations flew in a Manhattan courtroom this morning, as testimony began in a contentious fatal bludgeoning case in which the victim - Norman the cat - is...
Live from camp
Sitting here at the MSG Training Facility in Greenbugh. There have been two periods played thusfar in the first scrimmage of the year.A lot of interesting things (including line combinations)...
Coverage in today's Post
Look out below! The Mets are in freefall and on the verge of repeating The Collapse after a 1-0 loss to the last-place Nationals dropped them out of first place...
Mets to shuffle off to Buffalo?
No, not the New York Mets, but they're Triple-A affiliate could soon be based in the Queen City. The Mets are parting ways with the New Orleans Zephyrs after two...
ABREU, GIAMBI AND THE FUTURE
FROM JOEL SHERMANThe general consensus appears that free agents Bobby Abreu and Jason Giambi will be allowed to leave and that fits a logic: The Yanks are trying to get...
JOBA MAY PITCH IN WINTER BALL
FROM JOEL SHERMANThe Yankees are strongly weighing sending Joba Chamberlain to some form of extra pitching -- likely either the Arizona Fall League or the Instructional League -- as a...
3 UP: Joba, Giambi/Abreu and Epstein
1. The Yankees are strongly weighing sending Joba Chamberlain to some form of extra pitching -- likely either the Arizona Fall League or the Instructional League -- as a way...
SWB falls in Bricktown Showdown
The International League champion Scranton/Wilkes Barre Yankees fell to Pacific Coast League champion Sacramento, 4-1, in the Bricktown Showdown in Oklahoma City last night.Ian Kennedy allowed three runs - all...
MAC: I'D LET '9/11' PANEL FIX WALL ST.
John McCain yesterday called for creating a 9/11-type commission to help clean up the mess on Wall Street - an idea Barack Obama panned as a cynical "stunt." "We have...
BARACK: HOORAY FOR H'WOOD $$
WASHINGTON - Barack Obama surrounded himself with Hollywood's celebrity glamour last night at a star-studded, big-bucks fund-raiser featuring a performance by Barbra Streisand - drawing mockery from rival John McCain....
NY IN LINE FOR $16B BAM SLAM
ALBANY - Barack Obama's plan to raise taxes would pile a staggering $16 billion in additional taxes on wealthy New Yorkers, according to a new report. The study, from the...
COURT TIFF HITS HOME IN MICH.
Democrats and Republicans tangled in swing state Michigan yesterday, as Barack Obama's camp filed a suit accusing the GOP of a plan to keep people facing home foreclosures from voting....
JUST CALL 'EM 'MAC'BERRYS
Move over, Al Gore. John McCain helped invent the BlackBerry. "You're looking at the miracle John McCain helped create . . ." quipped McCain domestic-policy adviser Doug Holtz-Eakin yesterday, holding...
A CLEAR & SAFE CHOICE FOR NO MORE 9/11S
THE ISSUE: Which presidential candidate is better suited to handle US national-security issues. If anyone needs any more proof that John McCain should be our next president, all you have...
BOOK-BANNERS HOLLYWOOD IGNORES
EVER heard Hollywood liberals talk about suspected jihadists the way they talk of suspected GOP "book-banners"? The 9/11 attacks didn't turn celebrity leftists into hawks. But the minute they started...
THE NEW THREATS TO CHARTER SCHOOLS
THE State University board of trustees just approved seven more charter schools, including four in New York City. That makes 145 charters approved since passage of the charter law in...
PETRAEUS VICTORIOUS
IN Baghdad yesterday, Dave Petraeus, the most successful American general in more than a half-century, passed the flag to his former deputy, Gen. Ray Odierno. It was a milestone not...
OBAMA OBJECTS
IN Monday's Post, I discussed how Barack Obama, during his July trip, had asked Iraqi leaders not to finalize an agreement vital to the future of US forces in Iraq...
SMALL FRY'S THIGH-HIGH
In the most mismatched pairing since Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, the shortest man in the world comes face-to-knee yesterday with the woman who owns the longest legs on Earth.PHOTOS:...
LADY IN WAITING
Israel's ruling party is poised to choose a 50-year-old mother of two as its new chief today and hand her the keys to the prime minister's office. Tzipi Livni, a...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Tue.: 814; Lucky Sum: 13 / Midday Win-4 Tue.: 1550; Lucky Sum: 11 / Evening Nos. Tue.: 968; Lucky Sum: 23 / Evening Win-4 Tue.: 8901;...
O.J. DEFENSE MAKES A GANG TACKLE
Defense lawyers yesterday blitzed an alleged victim and key prosecution witness in the robbery-kidnapping case against O.J. Simpson, tripping him up on his recollection of the incident and implying he...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan A panhandler was busted after withdrawing $280 using a bank customer's ATM card in Union Square, authorities said yesterday. Suspect Carolyn Duke, 48, was loitering in a Washington Mutual...
BILL: HIDE VOLS' ASSETS
A proposal to limit the amount of personal financial information that volunteers on city boards and elected officials must publicly disclose is being revised at the request of government watchdog...
STUCK IN HIS WAYS
Embattled US Rep. Charles Rangel will not give up his plum leadership position on one of the most powerful committees in Congress, his lawyer said yesterday. Despite growing calls for...
CAT-KILLER CREEP FELINE THE HEAT
It's not every trial where prospective jurors are asked, "Are you a vegan?" and "Have you ever been attacked by a cat?" But the Manhattan felony animal-cruelty trial of dashing,...
'ROSE' GROWS IN THORNY NABE
Talk about a catapult. Saddled with a big, fat F and ranked second to last in 2006-07 among all city schools, PS 270 in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, pulled off perhaps...
THE SON SHINES BRIGHTLY
Frankie Gaetani may be only 11, but he's already making a big difference. The sixth-grader from Lynbrook, LI, helps take care of his ailing father while raising money and awareness...
FERRY 'SUICIDE' RESCUE
A Harlem teacher who vanished last month was hauled out of the waters off Staten Island by rescuers after an apparent suicide attempt yesterday, authorities said. The nearly lifeless body...
UPPER E. SIDE GAL KICKS BURGLAR'S BUTT
A feisty Upper East Side woman wrestled an ex-con to the ground after he slipped inside her apartment through a window, The Post has learned. Christine Anderson, 46, a sales...
SHOCKING TURN FOR THE WORSE
At one Bronx school, it was easy come, easy go. Riding high with an A on its 2006-07 report card, PS 92 yesterday got an unwelcome F for the past...
EX-GIANT GETS 7 YRS. IN FRAUD
Former New York Giants wide receiver Mark Ingram was sentenced to seven years in prison yesterday for bank fraud and money laundering. "I know what I've been given as far...
SKELOS RULES OUT TAX HIKE
ALBANY - New York's top Republican turned thumbs down on a possible tax hike to deal with the state's worsening fiscal crisis yesterday, declaring flatly: "We will not raise taxes."...
NUKE-DETECT NET
The NYPD yesterday received a $29.6 million federal anti-terrorism grant that will help complete a "ring of steel" network of radiological detectors, officials said. Department officials said the money would...
DIESEL-FUME SCARE IN QUEENS
More than 100 Queens office workers were sickened by diesel fumes from an excavation project yesterday. About a dozen people were taken to area hospitals, but none was in serious...
CITY'S SCHOOLS MAKE THE GRADE
It was as easy as A, B and C at city schools yesterday - with nearly 94 percent of elementary and middle schools earning passing marks on their second-annual Department...
SING SING JAILER BUSTED AS PERV
A state correction officer has been arrested for fondling a 5-year-old boy in Brooklyn, law-enforcement sources said yesterday. Deshawn Holloway was charged Monday with sex abuse and endangering the welfare...
IT'S 'BEAST' IN SHOW
"The Beast" is back on Broadway. James Barbour, who was sentenced to 60 days in prison earlier this year for having sexual relations with a 15-year-old girl in his dressing...
CHARTER MAKES 'EM SMARTER
They're A-OK. Half of the city's 42 rated charter schools were handed an A yesterday - including three that made it into the top five schools overall. It was a...
STOLEN TORAHS BACK FOR HOLIDAY
A collection of stolen Torahs was returned to a Queens synagogue yesterday in time for the Rosh Hashana holiday. The eight handwritten scrolls of Hebrew scriptures were returned to the...
GLITZY WHEELS OF MISFORTUNE ON WALL STREET
As Wall Street reels from the worst financial crisis since the Depression, grim-faced traders yesterday were greeted by what appeared to be a cruel joke - an outrageously extravagant car...
HANDBAG BIG STOLE $19M
The former chief financial officer of Tommy Hilfiger Handbags pleaded guilty yesterday to stealing more than $19 million from the company to finance his home and two apartments, interior-decorating services,...
FEDS INSURE THE SURVIVAL OF AIG
The US government last night went into the insurance business in a big way - effectively nationalizing the industry's largest firm, with the taxpayers footing the $85 billion bill. The...
MIKE SLAMS 'NOW' SOCIETY
An "I want it now" society that refuses to live within its means is partly responsible for the subprime-mortgage crisis, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday. "I think you just can't blame...
NO FAME FOR WARHOL MAN
In the modern world, you don't even need to exist to get your 15 minutes of fame. An auction of hundreds of works by a deceased artist whose seller claims...
IT'S CURTAINS FOR LINENS
Having missed a last-ditch chance to sell itself, Linens 'n Things may be forced to liquidate its business during the holidays, sources told The Post. Cerberus Capital Management last week...
MARTS MESS CLOUDS REAL ESTATE BIZ
GLOOM has finally overtaken the giddy glee of last year as the city has gotten caught in the cross hairs of the country's ongoing financial and real estate crisis. "Everyone...
TIME FOR SHOWDOWN OR SHUTDOWN AT THE STAR-LEDGER
THE Newhouse family said that it doesn't expect to get the amount of cost-saving concessions it needs to save the Star-Ledger, the largest daily in New Jersey, and said it...
BARGAIN HUNTERS SPUR RELIEF RALLY
Investors charged back into stocks yesterday, snapping up bargains from the rubble of the big 500-point sell-off in the Dow Jones average the prior day. After an initial fall in...
INSURANCE GIANT CASTS LARGE MARKET SHADOW
The Fed's historic action averting AIG's possible bankruptcy also contained a global ripple effect in high finance that would have been devastating. AIG's far-flung insurance policies and pension products for...
BRITISH FEAST ON LEHMAN FIRE SALE
British banking giant Barclays struck a deal to buy most of bankrupt Lehman Brothers yesterday for roughly $2 billion - potentially saving as many as 10,000 employees from having to...
PAULSON'S PRIDE
Wall Street has just learned how big is too big to fail. The stunning decision by the Federal Reserve to lend up to $85 billion to struggling insurance giant American...
FALLOUT FROM BANKRUPTCY TRIMMING HEDGE FUNDS
Like a bad cold, Lehman Brothers' woes are starting to spread. Yesterday, New York investment firm Reserve Management Corp. told investors the value of one of its money-market mutual funds...
FEDS TRY TO FIND A BUYER FOR WAMU
The fate of Washington Mutual remained in question yesterday as federal regulators recently called a number of banks asking if they would consider buying the nation's largest savings and loan...
STEP DOWN, CHARLIE
Charlie Rangel must be a centipede - given how many shoes have been dropping regarding his personal finances. Yet he's pugnaciously defying demands that he step aside as chairman of...
LET 'EM DRILL WHERE THE OIL ISN'T?
"It's a hoax on the American people. This is intended for one reason . . . so the Democrats can say we voted on energy." - House GOP leaderJohn Boehner...
PUBLIC HOUSING - WITH A VIEW
Looks like Gotham's ever-vocal "housing advocates" have a new demand: subsidized waterfront vistas. Queens Councilman Eric Gioia this week headlined a rally protesting plans to build 5,000 new apartments, many...
BLAME? START HERE
WITH Lehman Brothers collapsing, and Merrill Lynch surrendering, and all hell breaking loose in the financial markets, Bloomberg News sent reporters out to gather some impressions from ordinary non-financial Americans....
SLAY CASE PAWSITIVELY LOONY WASTE OF MONEY
HOLY cat litter! Someone - please - hand me the euthanasia needle and end this. In a courthouse revolving with miscreants and murderers, with common rapists, crack whores and assorted...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Sweet and cuddly it was not. A Mount Carmel, Pa., woman got the stinky shock of her life when she went to pet what she thought was a neighbor's cat....
TO WINE OWN SELF BE TRUE
Back in the days when music impresario and wine buff Michael Dorf was running the Knitting Factory, his famed downtown performance spot, he took pride in crafting a superb wine...
NEW HIP WAY TO SIP
FOR those who can't be bothered blending their own grapes, new high-tech wine bar Clo offers a novel approach to sipping and swirling. Located on the fourth floor of the...
A SHOW FOR TINY IRWIN?
THE Crocodile Hunter's 4-year-old son is looking to get his own wildlife TV show. "He's a little Steve clone," says Steve Irwin's widow, Terri Irwin. In a segment of a...
REEGE RAGE
HERE'S Regis Philbin- like you've never seen him before! It's a pumped-up Reege, playing himself, on the CBS sitcom "How I Met your Mother " - and boy, has he...
STARR REPORT
Jerry Springer wants you to help him win his elusive Daytime Emmy. Springer, who kicks off the 18th season of "The Jerry Springer Show" Monday, is bent on winning the...
BLOWING SMOKE
If I ran the Emmys, only one vote would matter - mine. But since that's not the case, we must take our chances with the Emmy voters, who get it...
WITTY BRITTY
BRITAIN'S quick-witted former Prime Minister Tony Blair is mixing it up tomorrow night with Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show." It will be Blair's first time with Stewart - but...
'GIRL' POWERS THE CW
YOU go, "Girl." Monday's episode of "Gossip Girl" shattered series records across-the-board, including all key demos and total viewers (3.7 million). The episode centered in a citywide blackout - and...
CELINE THERE, DION THAT
AT Celine Dion's Monday night performance at Madison Square Garden, the skinny 40-year-old diva had no soul. She was all power without passion, mechanical and as unrelenting as a singing...
IMAGINING THE '60S IF JFK HAD LIVED
WHEN John F. Kennedy was killed in 1963, the US had 16,000 military advisers in Vietnam. By 1968, JFK's successor, cowboy Lyndon B. Johnson, had committed 500,000 American troops to...
NEWMAN IS AGAINST WOMEN SINGERS
RANDY Newman is unique. Not because the 64-year-old composer's singing drawl is instantly recognizable, or because he's one of pop's master storytellers who never tells his own story. The guy...
FAMILY TIES GET TANGLED
IT's not surprising that Wilson Milam, who oversaw the bloody staging of "The Lieutenant of Inishmore," was tapped to direct Nicky Silver's new play. While the violence in Silver's "Three...
GOODFELA
WHEN the time came, Bill T. Jones knew just where to find his Fela - he'd seen him at a casting call for an earlier show, "The Seven." "I was...
KING OF NYC
DANIEL Boulud wants it known: His upcoming Bowery restaurant won't be a burger joint, no matter what the blogs say. "It isn't a hamburger place," he says, lauging off innumerable...
5 REASONS JETS FANS CAN HOPE
YES, Jets fans, you're still down and a bit rattled by Sunday's loss to the Patriots after such high hopes followed you into Giants Stadium. But, in an early analysis...
JETS GIVE GRAHAM THE BOOT
The Jets yesterday waived struggling punter Ben Graham after uneven performances in the Jets' first two games this season. Graham, who was signed as a free agent in 2005, appeared...
SUTTER: I'M NOT ANTI-EUROPEAN
With his world-wide prospects officially opening their bids for Devils jobs yesterday, coach Brent Sutter denied suggestions he leans toward North American players and away from Europeans. "That's nonsense. That's...
STADIUM SEEMS MORE LIKE MUSEUM
IN the Yankee Stadium of my youth, left-cen ter field was known as Death Valley. Right-handed batters such as Joe DiMaggio who looked out at the fence 457 feet away...
BRAVE KID LIVES STADIUM DREAM
This final homestand is not just about the legends and the history of this incredible place. There are so many different chapters to the Yankee Stadium story. In many ways...
MIGNOGNA AT STADIUM FROM START
Joe Mignogna saw the first game at Yankee Stadium in 1923 when he was five. Last night the 90-year-old who grew up on 138th St. and Brown Place in The...
JETER PASSES LOU FOR STADIUM MARK
Two members of Yankees royalty took different paths last night in the waning hours of old Yankee Stadium. Derek Jeter went past Lou Gehrig for hits at the Stadium, and...
ZERO HOUR: HUGHES AIMS FOR FIRST WIN OF SEASON
Phil Hughes' push for a job next season with the Yankees begins tonight. First, there is a piece of unfinished business in 2008. How about at least one victory for...
JOE D STREAKS INTO HISTORY
It began with a single off Ed Smith of the White Sox at Yankee Stadium and did not end for 56 games. Joe DiMaggio's famous streak started in the Bronx...
ELI SOLIDIFYING HIS STATUS AS SUPER
TWO games into the sea son after Eli Manning fortified his place in Giants lore, two distinct and novel plays present evidence that there's a special quarterback blossoming right before...
RANGERS BEGIN LONG JOURNEY
The preseason schedule is accelerated in order to accommodate six games in North America before the trip to Europe that will include two exhibition games in Switzerland and two regular-season...
HONDO'S AWAKENING
The Rays paid Hondo back for Monday night's be trayal, snuffing the Sawx last night to boost the beefy bankroll to 640 cronins. Tonight, the Pitching Form's Career vs. Opp...
SPORTS SHORTS
MLB: Vets to vote on TorreJoe Torre is one of 10 players on the Hall of Fame ballot for Veterans Committee voters. Jim Kaat and Gil Hodges are also on...
TATIS LOST FOR SEASON
WASHINGTON - The news went from bad to worse for the reeling Mets last night when outfielder Fernando Tatis was lost for the year with a separated right shoulder. Tatis,...
SCOREBOARD SHOWS A TROUBLING REALITY
WASHINGTON - This is what the season has been reduced to, with 12 games to go for the Mets: staring at the scoreboard, begging for help, relying on the kindness...
DIVISION LEAD GOES UP IN CHOKE IN D.C.
WASHINGTON - History is repeating itself. The gagging Mets can't deny it any longer after falling out of first place in the NL East and piling on more humiliation last...
U.S. GOTTA HAVE FUN
LOUISVILLE - When Tiger Woods suggested in 1997 that the Ryder Cup matches were just an exhibition and questioned what all the fuss was about, he was roasted for not...
PRESSURE'S ON ZINGER, FALDO
LOUISVILLE - Ryder Cup captains don't compete on the golf course during the biennial matches. They don't hit a single shot, don't line up a single putt. Yet, in some...
A $46 million first base coach?
That would be Kei Igawa, who, if you watched the Bricktown Showdown (the Triple-A championship game between the International League and Pacific Coast League) between the Scranton/Wilkes Barre Yankees and...
JETER BREAKS RECORD
Derek Jeter reached a milestone last night that allowed him to take another step with Yankee royalty, a fraternity he long ago joined. Sore-shouldered Andy Pettitte wasn't as fortunate, since...
Tatis to miss rest of season
WASHINGTON -- The Mets announced after tonight's 1-0 loss to the Nationals that outfielder Fernando Tatis will miss the rest of the season (including the playoffs, if the Mets make...
Trenton expects to continue relationship with Yankees
Fresh off of its second straight Double-A Eastern League title, the Trenton Thunder are expected to continue their affiliation with the Yankees.While the team's agreement with the Bombers comes to...
Niese, Evans, Murphy lead Mets minor league honorees
The Mets handed out their Sterling Awards, the equivalent of the MVP for each of their nine minor league affiliates, this week, and three players who have made big impacts...
Tatis has separated shoulder
WASHINGTON -- As if enough things weren't going wrong for the Mets these days, left fielder Fernando Tatis (pictured) suffered a separated right shoulder in the fifth inning tonight when...