April 12, 2009
SI NEIGHBORS FIGHT OFF FIRE
April 12, 2009 | 10:15pmStaten Island families abandoned their holiday dinner tables to help fight an afternoon wild fire raging near their homes. "It was scary," said Theresa Abella, 46, who joined neighbors along...
FARE BEATER KILLED IN TRASH CHUTE
April 12, 2009 | 9:55pmA 34-year-old New Jersey man fell to his death inside a luxury Midtown building's trash chute after jumping out of a cab without paying, police and witnesses said today. Cops...
Box Office: G-Rated Singer Trumps Date-Raping Mall Cop
April 12, 2009 | 6:30pm"Observe and Report'' may be one of the year's most written-about movies, but it opened at the lower end of expectations with an estimated $11.1 million in fourth place. It's...
Some stuff for a Sunday
April 12, 2009 | 5:54pmPedroia calls A-Rod a dork Red Sox second baseman and reigning MVP Dustin Pedroia called Alex Rodriguez a dork in a recent Boston Magazine cover story."That guy," Pedroia said, pausing...
MADOFF'S METS TICKETS FETCH $7,500
April 12, 2009 | 5:14pmA pair of tickets owned by ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff for the Mets home opener tomorrow at Citi Field fetched $7,500 in an online auction that ended with all the...
Pitching set for Padres series
April 12, 2009 | 5:04pmMIAMI -- Right-hander Mike Pelfrey is getting the historic first start tomorrow night against the Padres in the Mets' debut series at new $850 million Citi Field. Here is the...
OBAMA GIRLS NAME THEIR NEW PUPPY 'BO'
April 12, 2009 | 4:41pmAll dogs go to heaven, but only a few go to the White House. That's where the new top dog is heading Tuesday when President Obama fulfills one of his...
Game 6: Mets at Marlins
April 12, 2009 | 4:25pmMIAMI -- The Mets are looking to close out this six-game trip and head to new Citi Field on a high note this afternoon when ace Johan Santana takes on...
Around the Minors: Friday, April 10
April 12, 2009 | 4:18pmAfter being selected as the Yankees top draft pick in the 2007 First-Year Player Draft, Andrew Brackman failed to throw a professional pitch for the first year-and-a-half of his career...
Redding aims for May return
April 12, 2009 | 4:08pmMIAMI -- Tim Redding, who has been rehabbing his sore right shoulder in Port St. Lucie, caught up with the Mets here this morning and said he hopes to be...
Around the Minors: Saturday, April 11
April 12, 2009 | 3:58pmThings started off well for the Bufalo Bisons Friday, but the Mets Triple-A affiliate suffered the same results. Rodney McKissic reports from Coca-Cola Field, where the Bisons dropped to 0-2...
POLAR BEAR NIGHTMARE
April 12, 2009 | 3:34pmA disturbed woman caused a horrific spectacle at a German zoo when she jumped into the polar-bear pen where the world-famous Knut lives and was brutally mauled by three of...
Bushes in Today's Post
April 12, 2009 | 3:07pmIn today's Post, you can read the first installment of Beating the Bushes for the 2009 season. In it, I lay out six players who currently are flying under the...
Around the Minors: Sunday, April 12
April 12, 2009 | 3:01pmIt hasn't been the start to the season the Buffalo Bisons would have hoped for in their first season as the Mets Triple-A affiliate since 1965. For the second straight...
Coverage in The Post
April 12, 2009 | 1:35pmMIAMI -- Livan Hernandez's strong debut as a Met and an unexpected revival from the previously comatose Luis Castillopaced an 8-4 win over the Marlins that ended a two-game skid....
UPGRADING OFFENSE FIRST CONCERN FOR GANG GREEN
April 12, 2009 | 8:53amThe Jets spent the free agency period signing and trading for players to bolster their defense. In the draft, the focus now likely will shift to the offense. The retirement...
SPORTS SHORTS
April 12, 2009 | 8:07amMLB: Passenger in Adenhart crash off critical list In Anaheim, Calif., a passenger injured in the car crash that killed Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart and two friends was taken off...
UNKNOWN FARM PRODUCTS WITH A SHOT
April 12, 2009 | 8:07amWHEN last season began, Mets fans knew little about Daniel Murphy, who would go on to hit .313 in 151 at-bats and open this year as the Amazin's starting left...
'GENERAL' RALLIES TO WIN BLUE GRASS
April 12, 2009 | 8:07amGeneral Quarters is heading home to the Kentucky Derby. The 3-year-old colt overtook pacesetter Join in the Dance at the top of the stretch, then held off favorite Hold Me...
PARAGALLO'S EX-MANAGER TRIGGERED INVESTIGATION
April 12, 2009 | 8:07amThe State Police raid on upstate Center Brook Farm last Wednesday that led to the arrest of thoroughbred owner-breeder Ernie Paragallo on 22 counts of animal cruelty was triggered by...
PAPELBON SAVES BOSOX FROM LATE DISASTER
April 12, 2009 | 8:07amJason Bay homered twice and drove in three runs, Brad Penny won his American League debut and the Red Sox beat the Angels 5-4 yesterday in Anaheim. Mike Lowell added...
BUT WRIGHT, MO GET GOOD GRADES IN HARDBALL RATINGS
April 12, 2009 | 8:02amHARDBALL's annual Best and Worst has evolved over the years. There are fewer "Worst" categories, for example. We used to do the five worst managers and general managers, but so...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q & A WITH... J. J. PUTZ
April 12, 2009 | 7:57amThe Post's Steve Serby chatted with the Mets' new setup man.COMPLETE METS COVERAGEMETS BLOG Q: You're notorious for pieing guys in the face. Do you have any new teammates picked...
ADENHART TRAGEDY A SOBERING REMINDER OF ATHLETES' MORTALITY
April 12, 2009 | 7:56amKANSAS CITY, Mo. -- This is the kind of news that makes your blood run cold in an instant, and always will. We think we are fairly unshockable anymore, that...
THE WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS
April 12, 2009 | 7:55amWINNERS STEVE JOBS Apple CEO sees shares soar 44% in March -- well above Nasdaq, S&P 500 and Dow Jones gains. JOHN STUMPF Chief executive at Wells Fargo fuels sector...
GIANTS MAY USE EXTRA PICKS
April 12, 2009 | 7:51amThank you, Jeremy Shockey. Soon enough, that could end up being the sentiment of the Giants. The reward brought back for their erstwhile tight end, sent away to New Orleans...
PLASTIC CUT
April 12, 2009 | 7:48amPutting further pressure on efforts to re-ignite consumer spending, 42 percent of consumers had their credit card limits lowered or accounts closed in the six months ended Oct. 31, according...
CREW HAILS HERO OF PIRATE ATTACK
April 12, 2009 | 7:48amSafely in port at last, the American crew of the Maersk Alabama -- which included at least one New Yorker -- hailed the still-captive skipper Richard Phillips as a hero...
ALL-PSAL TEAM
April 12, 2009 | 7:48amWith Lincoln winning its fourth consecutive PSAL title, it's no surprise the Railsplitters got a pair of players on The Post's All-PSAL First Team. Lincoln senior guard Lance Stephenson has...
THE RUMBLE
April 12, 2009 | 7:46amOff to see the 'Wizard' Coughlin meets Wooden for first time Giants coach Tom Coughlin (right) finally got to meet John Wooden (inset) 10 days ago when Coughlin and his...
PERRY WILL AUTHOR A NEW OLD STORY
April 12, 2009 | 7:43amAUGUSTA, Ga. -- It seems almost sacrilegious that somehow Jack Nicklaus' magical final round in 1986 will be upstaged. Well, maybe not upstaged, but certainly replaced in the record books....
YANKS' 'PEN AUTHORING TURNAROUND
April 12, 2009 | 7:40amOpening Day in Baltimore did nothing to ease the fears about the Yankees' bullpen in front of Mariano Rivera. Not when Jonathan Albaladejo, Phil Coke, Brian Bruney and Damaso Marte...
ITALY'S CIAO HOUND
April 12, 2009 | 7:37amEverybody knows one: the boy in grade school who made bunny ears behind the teacher's head in the class photo. Or the uncle always ready with the whoopee cushion. Well,...
GAY MARRIAGE'S EARNED VICTORY
April 12, 2009 | 7:35amUh-oh. Now gays really, legitimately, democratically and completely non-sneakily have won the right to marry, in Vermont. Next thing you know gays preparing to wed will be everywhere, threatening our...
WHAT'S THE SCUTTLEBUTT?
April 12, 2009 | 7:32amWas it the day my oldest son asked me what "rope-a-dope" meant? Or when his younger brother - who was born after the world's worst nuclear disaster - wondered "Who's...
TECH VISA TREACHERY
April 12, 2009 | 7:31amIn between establishing new national policies on healthcare, education, financial regulation and energy, the Obama Administration said last week that it is getting ready to tackle immigration, too. Part of...
KEEP THIS THUG CAGED
April 12, 2009 | 7:30amOne of the region's most notorious killers is up for parole again this month -- only this time there's a good chance he could be set loose. That must not...
OBAMA ON ISLAM
April 12, 2009 | 7:29amPresident Obama's declaration to the Turkish parliament that "the United States is not and never will be at war with Islam" is being widely hailed as a major shift in...
SERIOUS WORK
April 12, 2009 | 7:29amMeghan Clyne's article ridicules members of the New York Congressional delegation for introducing so-called "lunatic legislation" ("Keystone Congress," PostOpinion, April 6). Every bill introduced by me or my colleagues is...
ZONE OFFENSE
April 12, 2009 | 7:28amWhy does The Post see nothing wrong with the city Department of Education violating state law by denying parents a say in the rezoning of their children's neighborhood schools ("UFT...
ARROGANCE ABROAD
April 12, 2009 | 7:28amAs a Brit holidaying in Manhattan with my US cousins, your letters page caught my eye ("The Age of Arrogance," PostOpinion, April 7). There are two pronouncements that most Europeans...
WRONG TRACK
April 12, 2009 | 7:27amNowhere but in the increasingly bizarre world of New York state government would school budgets be raided to fund a transit system ("GOP Needs To Get Behind MTA Bailout," April...
REQUIRED READING
April 12, 2009 | 7:26amStore Front The Disappearing Face of New York by James T. and Karla L. Murray (Gingko) The married New York photographers spent eight years documenting the disappearing storefronts of mom-and-pop...
ONE NATION UNDER DOG
April 12, 2009 | 7:25amBack in November 2007, Utah's Deseret News wrote up a five-year-old Shih Tzu whose wardrobe included a pink mohair sweater and a fur-trimmed parka. The same month, the Arizona Republic...
BAD COP
April 12, 2009 | 7:24amPaul Bacon joined the New York City Police Department after 9/ll because he wanted to help people. But as he discovers, the NYPD is no place for dreamers. Although a...
KAZAN ON DIRECTING
April 12, 2009 | 7:23amTo exaggerate very little, Elia Kazan created Marlon Brando, James Dean, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams, yet to many an incensed actor who glared when he was given an honorary...
BESTSELLER: ALWAYS LOOKING UP
April 12, 2009 | 7:22amFox's new memoir isn't as compelling as his previous, "Lucky Man," which chronicled the discovery that he had Parkinson's disease. But there are still riveting moments as he talks about...
IN MY LIBRARY: JAYNE ATKINSON
April 12, 2009 | 7:21amNow that she's freed from saving the world -- as Karen Hayes on seasons five and six of "24" -- Jayne Atkinson can read again. That's one of the perks,...
GEORGE
April 12, 2009 | 7:20amThat George Steinbrenner has a legendary temper is, well, legendary. He has fired more employees than Donald Trump has apprentices. His feuds are epic. His jealous rage has cost him...
KATY COUTURE
April 12, 2009 | 6:42amSHE wore a Hello Kitty-bedazzled bustier to the Brit Awards, a carousel-inspired skirt to the MTV Awards and channeled Chiquita Banana at the Grammys. Forget being known as that singer...
CITY $PREADING FRESH FED AID TO MORE SCHOOLS
April 12, 2009 | 6:34amThe city's most vulnerable kids are getting a billion-dollar boost from President Obama. Thanks to $300 million in stimulus funds earmarked for Title 1 -- and a policy tweak by...
EGAN'S FRENCH BLISS
April 12, 2009 | 6:34amAfter he bids adieu to his role as the Big Apple's spiritual leader this week, Edward Cardinal Egan plans to use his language skills for a higher cause. Egan, who...
WED 'TIL DOGS DO US PART
April 12, 2009 | 6:34amJulia Szabo, The Post's pets columnist, divorced her husband, John, in 2001, but they continued to live together for years for the sake of their six dogs. Finally, last month,...
POLITICS BUBBLING BELOW THE SURFACE AT WATER BOARD
April 12, 2009 | 6:34amONE of the newest members of the city's Water Board is going to have a hard time rejecting the administration's request for a 14 percent hike in water and sewer...
GAL HELD IN SUITCASE GIRL'S MURDER IS FAMILY FRIEND
April 12, 2009 | 6:34amTRACY, Calif. -- Police said yesterday after arresting a Sunday school teacher that they still didn't know the motive for the shocking murder of an 8-year-old girl, whose body was...
HARD LIQUOR-AGENCY WHISTLEBLOWER BATTLE
April 12, 2009 | 6:34amTwo high-ranking officials at the embattled State Liquor Authority had to repeatedly push state investigators to look into possible corruption at their agency before they got any satisfaction, sources said....
SHOWDOWN OF 'ABBA' FAUX FOES
April 12, 2009 | 6:34amMamma Mia! It's a battle of the tribute bands. A Swedish songbird who makes her living mimicking the '70s pop group ABBA has allegedly been badmouthing a rival group --...
FATHER OF 14 OWES 530G
April 12, 2009 | 6:34amFLINT, Mich. -- Authorities say a man fathered 14 kids with 13 women and owes more than $530,000 in unpaid child support. Thomas Frazier, 42, was jailed Thursday, the Flint...
BAM'S BROTHER BARRED BY BRITS
April 12, 2009 | 6:34amOne of Barack Obama's half brothers was refused entry to Britain in January while he was on his way to the president's inaugural, it was reported today. Samson Obama was...
SINGH DONS PONZI GEAR AT THE MASTERS
April 12, 2009 | 6:34amTALK about staying the course. PGA golfer Vijay Singh -- playing this weekend at The Masters -- is still donning the Stanford Financial logo despite statements from the company's founder,...
KISSING UP TO THE BOSS
April 12, 2009 | 6:34amShe's not born to run. Patti Scialfa, Bruce Springsteen's better half, seems to have shrugged off reports about her allegedly two-timing man. On Friday night, the lead backup singer wrapped...
RAMONE TOME A 'DEE-SASTER'
April 12, 2009 | 6:34amThe estate of longtime Ramone's bassist Dee Dee Ramone, who died in 2002, is asking a court to put the kibosh on a book by the musician's first wife. Vera...
COP-DNA SUBPOENA IN RAPE
April 12, 2009 | 6:34amThe Manhattan District Attorney's Office has issued subpoenas for DNA swabs from the NYPD patrolman and his partner involved in the alleged rape of a drunken executive in her East...
FALLON IN MEXICAN STANDOFF
April 12, 2009 | 6:34amFood fight! "Late Night" host Jimmy Fallon is not welcome at two Manhattan restaurants. He angered staff at Los Dos Molinos, a Mexican eatery near Union Square, when he reportedly...
KERREY'S SLAM AT PROTEST
April 12, 2009 | 6:34amThe hooligans who launched an ill-fated bid to take over the New School are a bumbling brood of terrorists who deserve to be locked up, the university's embattled president said...
GREEDY GANGS NOT KIDD-ING
April 12, 2009 | 6:34amRagged Somali fisherman have traded nets and hooks for rocket launchers, GPS receivers and satellite phones and other tools of what's become a big-money, high-danger industry on the high seas....
VALOR & HORROR IN FRENCH RAID
April 12, 2009 | 6:34amWith a hijacked yacht drifting closer to the Somali shore and all ransom offers rejected, French naval officers relayed a last-minute offer to the pirates -- trade our lives for...
WAR VETS READY FOR ENROLL CALL
April 12, 2009 | 6:34amThe GI Bill has a new generation of combat veterans marching home from the Middle East and into Big Apple college classrooms -- the biggest surge since the Vietnam War....
EX-LOVE BEGS LILO: GET HELP!
April 12, 2009 | 6:34amGet a grip! That's the message Samantha Ronson has for her scorned former gal pal, Lindsay Lohan, who has been in meltdown mode since their recent breakup, according to a...
IRAN TRIES CYBER-RATTLING
April 12, 2009 | 6:34amChocolate, tulips, Heineken and now "sexual and moral perversion." The Iranian government is trying to put the kibosh on a Dutch media program in the Middle Eastern nation. The cybercrimes...
FBI KEEPS NY EYE ON CRISIS
April 12, 2009 | 6:34amThe FBI's probe of Somali pirates' seizure of an American cargo ship is being run out of the agency's New York office, officials said yesterday. The office typically handles cases...
YANKEE HEIR TIES HIS SECOND KNOT
April 12, 2009 | 6:34amA notoriously private heir to the Yankees empire is taking another swing at wedded bliss. Hal Steinbrenner, 39 -- one of team owner George Steinbrenner's four children -- married his...
PUPPETEER POT O' GOLD
April 12, 2009 | 6:34amIt shouldn't be hard for the teachers union to craft cue cards for City Council members -- they pay their writers six figures. While city teachers sweat out the threat...
SUMMERS' WIND, COME BLOWIN' IN FROM ACROSS THE SEA
April 12, 2009 | 6:34amCALL it the education of Larry Summers. At least that's what the mainstream media wants Americans to take away from the disclosure that President Barack Obama's top economic adviser earned...
TREES GROW IN CONCRETE JUNGLE
April 12, 2009 | 6:34amA barren downtown Manhattan traffic triangle will soon be transformed into a lush urban oasis. DeLury Square, a cement-covered island at Fulton and Gold Streets, is going from gray to...
WHITE LIE NATION
April 12, 2009 | 6:34amOutrage over the proposed merger of Live Nation and Ticketmaster continued to grow last week, threatening to put the kibosh on the concert industry mega-marriage. State and local government officials,...
SMART TAX PLANNING
April 12, 2009 | 6:34amDespite stagnant wages and rising taxes, New Yorkers can still create their own fiscal stimulus package and give themselves a raise, financial advisers said. It's all possible through smart tax...
ATM DANGER BARED
April 12, 2009 | 6:34amTwo apparent ATM card skimmers have been discovered in Manhattan -- and a third in Los Angeles -- putting at risk the account information of hundreds of customers. The skimmers...
RAGING EX-COP SUICIDE
April 12, 2009 | 6:34amA sickly former NYPD officer flew into a jealous rage yesterday when his city-cop wife brought home a male colleague and tried to gun the pair down in his Long...
PAUL-SON MAY RISE IN WEST
April 12, 2009 | 6:34amMerritt Paulson decided 14 years ago not to follow his dad's career path to Goldman Sachs. The 36-year-old former New Yorker and son of one-time Goldman Sachs CEO and former...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
April 12, 2009 | 6:34amQueens * Five partygoers were busted after they went on a rampage in a Flushing karaoke bar, sources said yesterday. The pals were in a VIP room at the DIY...
SOCIAL SECURITY SURPLUS ISSUES
April 12, 2009 | 6:34amDear John: The Social Security Administration recently said that its annual budget surplus will end five years earlier than previously predicted, due to the ongoing recession/depression. How will that affect...
GLAMOUR 'FIRST'
April 12, 2009 | 6:34amShe's America's top "model." Michelle Obama is the nation's first first lady to add a full-time makeup artist to her traveling entourage, according to stylists who have worked with presidential...
'ROCK' BOTTOM
April 12, 2009 | 6:34amIt's the end of the Ice Age for New York City brides. Burned by the recession, grooms are buying engagement rings set with -- gasp -- cubic zirconia instead of...
'FAMILY' AFFAIR FOR FINANCE COMMISH
April 12, 2009 | 6:34amCity Finance Commissioner Martha Stark has been dating a former assistant commissioner in her department -- which also hired her lover's ex-husband and three of Stark's family members, The Post...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
April 12, 2009 | 6:34amNevada's hookers are begging and pleading for the taxman to cometh. State lawmakers in Carson City shot down a proposed prostitution tax supported by the Nevada Brothel Association. The industry,...
MEET MARKET
April 12, 2009 | 6:25amGet ready to rock! Blair, a 25-year-old restaurant server, loves karaoke. But if you can't carry a tune, a good sense of humor will do.Ivan, 26 interior designer He is:...
'MEAT' MARKET MISHAP
April 12, 2009 | 6:23amAFTER hearing about his date at UWS Mediterranean spot Nanoosh, we're left wondering why Andy, a 31-year-old baker, chose Laura, a 27-year-old account executive. They disagreed on food (meat versus...
THERE IS NO 'WE' IN TEAM
April 12, 2009 | 6:21amI am sitting in a cab next to my boyfriend who has just broken up with me. We're on the way to my Upper East Side walk-up, I'm bawling and...
EVERY NIGHT FEVER
April 12, 2009 | 6:17amSINCE nightclub owners couldn't pay their rents with "cool" during the real-estate boom of the aughts, Clubland's business model of the past half-decade was to fleece I-bankers with $400 bottles...
AGENDA
April 12, 2009 | 6:12amBeauty-licious Citywide locations, spaweek.com It's that radically Zen-tabulous time of year again. Yes, ladies (and men who love a good pampering), it's Spa Week! Starting Monday and running through next...
STREETCARTS OF DESIRE
April 12, 2009 | 6:07amIt's getting warmer outside and you're getting poorer. This particular confluence makes now the perfect time to check out the city's dizzying selection of street carts. And we're not talking...
SAUNDERS NOT COACHING MAGICIAN WIZARDS NEED
April 12, 2009 | 6:03amMEANINGFUL mater ial first: Andrew "Fuzzy" Levane yesterday celebrated his 89th birthday. Mundane matter next: The Wizards have committed to Flip Saunders as their next head coach, and officially will...
NO REASON ISLES CAN'T BE MORE LIKE ST. LOUIS
April 12, 2009 | 6:03amPHILADELPHIA -- So if the Blues, who are only the most prominent feel-good story of the year in the NHL, were able to do what they did, then what are...
TORTORELLA: BAD PRACTICE WON'T HAPPEN AGAIN
April 12, 2009 | 6:03amWith just one more game tonight in Philadelphia until what coach John Tortorella calls "the real stuff, not that regular-season [junk]," the Rangers practiced yesterday like the grind had gotten...
MICK'S BASE-RUNNING PLAY IN '60 SERIES WASN'T HEADS-UP
April 12, 2009 | 6:03amUNTIL last week, when two readers straightened me out, I was among those to present a particular baseball myth as fact. It was one of those "facts" that, because it's...
KNICKS LOOKING TO FINISH SEASON ON STRONG NOTE
April 12, 2009 | 6:03amDestined to finish the season with a trip to Secaucus for the NBA's draft lottery instead of the playoffs for the fifth straight season, the Knicks just have pride to...
3 MEN OUT FOR METS
April 12, 2009 | 6:03am* I've watched the first four games of the season, and I've noticed that after the first six batters, the Mets have three automatic outs: second baseman Luis Castillo, catcher...
RAY PLAY FOR HONDO
April 12, 2009 | 6:03amLivan and the Metamucils did a fantastic flush job on the Fish last night in Miami, giving Hondo a sec ond straight victory that trimmed his deficit to a scant...
JERSEY COMPLETES REGULAR SEASON WITH WIN
April 12, 2009 | 6:03amThese are not those magic Devils of February, the team that went 30-10-2 in one stretch of Martin Brodeur's absence. They want that spirit back, hoping they rekindled it by...
ISLES' EYES ON DRAFT LOTTERY AFTER ANOTHER LOSS
April 12, 2009 | 6:03amThe Islanders already have clinched the worst record in the league, and now the only thing that matters is what happens on Tuesday, when the NHL holds its draft lottery....
BETHPAGE LETS PUBLIC TEST DRIVE CHANGE OF COURSE
April 12, 2009 | 6:03amThere has been a philosophical change at the U.S. Golf Association in the last three years, and if you're observant enough, you now can experience it for yourself. Starting yesterday,...
TIGER, PHIL TOGETHER, BUT NOT IN FINAL GROUP
April 12, 2009 | 6:03amAUGUSTA, Ga. -- This isn't exactly what we all wanted. Yes, Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson will be paired together in today's Masters final round. They won't however, be in...
PADDY'S DAY DEMOLISHED BY QUAD BOGEY
April 12, 2009 | 6:03amAUGUSTA, Ga. -- The "Paddy Slam" was slammed yesterday. Padraig Harrington, who entered the Masters trying to win his third consecutive major, flamed out with a 1-over-par 73 to leave...
JAMMED LEADERBOARD PROMISES THRILLING FINISH
April 12, 2009 | 6:03amAUGUSTA, Ga. -- Are you ready for a shootout? Brace for it in the final round of the Masters, today at Augusta National, because the leaderboard is littered with players...
CARTER, ROOKIE STARTERS LEAD NETS TO VICTORY
April 12, 2009 | 6:03amBrook Lopez, the professional, got angry and responded with dunks and determined play. Brook Lopez, the high school or college player, probably would have done something stupid. "It doesn't surprise...
LUIS LETS LOOSE VS. OLD TEAM
April 12, 2009 | 6:03amMIAMI -- Luis Castillo might have bought himself a reprieve from the expected Citi Field boobirds tomorrow night. The embattled second baseman was prepared to hear it from Mets fans...
HERNANDEZ, CASTILLO PROPEL AMAZIN'S
April 12, 2009 | 6:03amMIAMI -- Livan Hernandez was just what the manager ordered for the Mets last night. COMPLETE METS COVERAGEMETS BLOG On the verge of wearing out his bullpen less than a...
A-ROD MAY BE AHEAD OF SCHEDULE
April 12, 2009 | 6:03amKANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Barring a last-minute setback, Alex Rodriguez will report to Tampa and begin working out tomorrow. When Rodriguez was diagnosed with a torn labrum in his right...
CC EARNS AN 'A' WITH 72/3 SHUTOUT FRAMES
April 12, 2009 | 6:03amKANSAS CITY -- The Steinbrenner family celebrated Hal's wedding yesterday in central Florida. In the middle of America, a large part of their investment portfolio calmed jangled nerves throughout the...
POSADA BACK IN SWING OF THINGS
April 12, 2009 | 6:03amKANSAS CITY, Mo. -- There is little mystery to what's on Jorge Posada's mind, even less wonder about his emotions from one day to the next, from one week to...
BILL WOULD BE STEP BACK FOR N.Y. HUNTERS
April 12, 2009 | 6:03amONE of the high notes this past hunting season was the success of the new Junior Big-Game hunting license authorized by Gov. David A. Paterson, which allows 14- and 15-year-olds...
OUR 'FRIENDS' IN NEED
April 12, 2009 | 5:59amIt's an unfortunate byproduct of starring in an insanely successful TV series when you're young: Nothing will ever be this good again. (Just ask Lisa Bonet.) As if to illustrate...
ADOPT ME
April 12, 2009 | 5:50amPolera is a 4½-year old spayed kitty who's affectionate and sweet. She'd make a great one-and-only pet! Meet her from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Humane Society of...
CLEVER HOUSE TOYS
April 12, 2009 | 5:49amLiving in the same house with the same old cat toys day after day can get boring for kitty. New objects spice things up, which is why disposable cat toys...
PAMPERING PUSS
April 12, 2009 | 5:49amWhen a down-on-his-luck Persian cat named Leo started to get his groove back after a simple grooming, his owner, former model and makeup artist Aryn Quinn, realized that a little...
THE CAINE SCRUTINY
April 12, 2009 | 5:47amMEN want to be him. Women want to date him. And Yanks just want to understand what the heck he's saying. Distinctive cockney accent or not, Michael Caine has been...
FRENCH TOAST FOR JACKIE
April 12, 2009 | 5:41amJACKIE Raynal, an important but relatively unsung figure in the world of film, is get ting her due -- a tribute at the French Institute/Alliance Francaise (22 E. 60th St.)....
BRIDGE
April 12, 2009 | 5:41am"THERE is more than one way to play every hand, unless it's the hand you just finished playing." -- Anonymous. "It was the finest hand I almost played in my...
SEEN IT ALL BEFORE
April 12, 2009 | 5:41amTAKE a look at the di agram and see if any thing strikes you. It struck Viswanathan Anand quickly, even though he was playing the game "blindfolded." In two seconds...
GOTHIC GIRLS
April 12, 2009 | 4:00amThis is a story that starts with a house: an East Hampton mansion where one of New York's most prominent families lived, partied and slowly slid into madness and ruin....
SPELLING TEST
April 12, 2009 | 4:00amTori Spelling may have spent 10 years of her life playing Donna Martin on "90210," but that didn't stop her from getting a bad case of the nerves when reprising...
IT IS 'UNUSUAL'
April 12, 2009 | 4:00amCold hard reality is not the province of ABC's new cop drama "The Unusuals." A visit to the set at the massive Steiner Studios complex at the Brooklyn Navy Yard...
DON'T MISS LIST
April 12, 2009 | 4:00amDRAMA THE TUDORS, Sunday, 9 p.m., Showtime The royal leg - A physician removes a splinter of bone from Henry VIII's ulcerating leg, courtesy of a jousting accident. Lady Ursula...
REEL GOOD
April 12, 2009 | 4:00am"Armageddon" (1998), Sunday 10:00 p.m. Encore Don't you hate it when an asteroid the size of Texas careens our way? To avert disaster NASA enlists an oil driller (Bruce Willis,...
PRIMETIME
April 12, 2009 | 4:00amIt's as predictable as a hangover. And nearly as nauseating. The news telecasts -- morning, noon, evening and night, national and local -- now open with the latest someone-done-someone-a-big-pile-of-wrong song....
Oops, Macheda did it again!
April 12, 2009 | 3:54amThey say once is a fluke, twice is a coincidence, three times is a trend. Well, if I'm Manchester United, I'm giving Federico Macheda a chance to make the third...
Red Bulls draw a Houston
April 12, 2009 | 3:23amAfter one of the worst soccer games I've ever team, the Red Bulls still have one of the worst attacks in MLS history. But give Juan Carlos Osorio's team this;...
Flo Rida gets low
April 12, 2009 | 2:49amMIAMI -- You're looking at the reason why the attendance-challenged Marlins drew a crowd of 39,412 to Dolphin Stadium tonight (their largest since the 2003 World Series season). Of course,...
WHERE YOUR TAXES GO
April 12, 2009 | 1:34amWhether you've already filed your federal taxes, or will rush to the post office this Wednesday at the last minute, you probably signed the form with a twinge of frustration....