May 16, 2009
METS 9, GIANTS 6
May 16, 2009 | 11:35pmRandy Johnson's pursuit of 300 wins will take a little longer. Johnson dug himself an early hole against New York and ace Johan Santana, and the potent Mets beat the...
RACHEL ALEXANDRA WINS PREAKNESS
May 16, 2009 | 10:40pmRachel Alexandra became the first filly to win the Preakness since 1924, holding off a late charge by Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird to capture the middle jewel of...
LI THUGS BREAK OFF-DUTY COP'S NECK
May 16, 2009 | 9:53pmAn off-duty cop who rushed to help his teenage brother in a Long Island brawl was set on by three thugs who broke his neck, police said. The officer, 27,...
YANKEES, PIRATES TRADE MINOR LEAGUE PITCHERS
May 16, 2009 | 9:21pm-- Eric Hacker, recently designated for assignment by the New York Yankees, has been traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates for Romulo Sanchez in a swap of minor league right-handers. Hacker...
QUEEN VICE PRINCIPAL SICK
May 16, 2009 | 9:17pmShame-faced city officials shuttered three more schools yesterday after taking heat for being slow to close three others where possible swine flu had been detected, leaving a Queens principal clinging...
YANKEES 6, TWINS 4
May 16, 2009 | 8:58pmFor once, Alex Rodriguez had a pie-in-the-face moment he could enjoy. There were no thoughts of steroids or hip injuries or failure to deliver in the clutch. In fact, he...
Perez throws in extended spring
May 16, 2009 | 8:34pmSAN FRANCISCO -- Oliver Perez's comeback trail began today when the struggling left-hander threw three innings against minor-league competition in extended spring training in Florida. Perez did not allow a...
METS SEND CARLOS DELGADO TO DL
May 16, 2009 | 7:40pmSAN FRANCISCO -- In a long-expected move, the Mets finally put Carlos Delgado on the DL today with an impingement in his right hip and promoted switch-hitting outfielder Angel Pagan...
ROAD RAGE 'KILLER' CLAIMS HE PANICKED
May 16, 2009 | 7:02pmA baby-faced driver accused of killing a man in an horrific road-rage incident was arraigned today as dozens of his friends gathered outside a Long Island police precinct. "I'll see...
Bundesliga: Wolfsburg Win Big -- Again!
May 16, 2009 | 6:36pmBosnian striker Edin Dzeko netted a hat trick as German league leaders Wolfsburg routed Hanover 96 5-0 on the road on Saturday to close in on their first Bundesliga title...
'ANGEL' FARRAH FAWCETT CROSSES THE FINAL FRONTIER OF REALITY TELEVISION
May 16, 2009 | 5:45pmWith Friday night's airing of the two-hour documentary "Farrah's Story," Farrah Fawcett became the first American celebrity to film herself dying. But amid this week's non-stop media coverage of the...
Reyes sidelined again
May 16, 2009 | 5:44pm(UPDATED) SAN FRANCISCO -- Jose Reyes is out of the lineup for the third game in a row today because of continued soreness in his right calf. Alex Cora replaced...
EPL: Manchester United Captures League Title
May 16, 2009 | 5:36pmReutersManchester United captured their 18th English league title on Saturday when they secured the point they needed in a nervy 0-0 draw at home to Arsenal.It was a cautious display...
Delgado goes on the DL
May 16, 2009 | 5:15pm(UPDATED) SAN FRANCISCO -- In a long-expected move, the Mets finally put Carlos Delgado on the DL today with an impingement in his right hip and promoted switch-hitting outfielder Angel...
Game 36: Mets at Giants
May 16, 2009 | 4:57pm(UPDATED) SAN FRANCISCO -- The marquee matchup of Johan Santana and Randy Johnson highlights the third game of the Mets' four-game series here against the Giants this afternoon at AT&T...
Coverage in The Post
May 16, 2009 | 4:03pmSAN FRANCISCO -- It came when most of their fans were asleep, but the never-say-die Mets pulled off another impressive comeback Friday night with an 8-6 win over the Giants...
THE ENGLISH CONQUEST
May 16, 2009 | 3:38pmAbout a decade ago, while backpacking with a group of friends, I arrived late one evening in front of a sausage stand in Vienna. We picked through our pockets, trying...
Man United gets a boost from Bolt
May 16, 2009 | 3:20pmAs somebody who's married to a Jamaican and gets to that island country as often as possible, I can tell you Jamaicans love their soccer _ especially the Premier League....
Advancing Red Bulls v Houston
May 16, 2009 | 2:22pmHere is an advance of the Red Bulls' tilt with visiting Houston tonight, written by colleague David Satriano.Remember, this will be the Dynamo's first trip to the Meadowlands since the...
DEALS: $199/night in California
May 16, 2009 | 1:41pmHere's something you don't see every day: Fire sales at the two coastal Ritz-Carlton resorts in California. Yep -- the beautifully renovated, clifftop Laguna Niguel in Orange County and the...
CBS And Theatrical Films: If At First You Don't Succeed...
May 16, 2009 | 12:41pmActually, CBS subsidiary Cinema Center Films cranked out 39 films between 1968 and 1972, including "With Six You Get Eggroll,'' "The Boys in the Band'' and "Big Jake'' -- all...
Cannes: 'Woodstock' Fails to Wow
May 16, 2009 | 10:38am"A low-wattage film about a high-wattage event'' is how The Hollywood Reporter's Kirk Honeycutt politely dimissesAng Lee's "Taking Woodstock,'' which premiered Friday at the Cannes Film Festival. Variety's Todd McCarthy...
WAR FOR BOY WHO REFUSES CHEMO
May 16, 2009 | 9:03amMINNEAPOLIS -- A Minnesota judge ruled yesterday that a 13-year- old cancer patient must be evaluated by a doctor to determine whether the boy would benefit from restarting chemotherapy treatment...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
May 16, 2009 | 9:03amA handcuffed prisoner who got away from cops in Uniontown, Pa., wrecked a truck he stole because he couldn't steer with his shackles on. Shaun Rosario escaped from a police...
BAFFERT WANTS TO PLUCK 'BIRD'
May 16, 2009 | 7:54amBALTIMORE -- Two weeks later, trainer Bob Baffert still is in shock that he lost the Kentucky Derby when Mine That Bird ran down his horse, Pioneerof the Nile, and...
ALL EYES ON FILLY FAVORITE
May 16, 2009 | 7:53amBALTIMORE -- She's faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, but can she leap past 12 colts in a single bound?PREAKNESS BETTOR'S GUIDE We'll find out today...
EX-MET CATCHER AWAITS CALL FROM SOMEONE
May 16, 2009 | 7:49amBeing a backup would work. So would serving as a utility player.BOX SCOREMETS BLOG "I just want to win," Paul Lo Duca says. "That's it." Lo Duca had a workout...
TOMKO'S DAD LEAVES LASTING NAME IN CLEVELAND
May 16, 2009 | 7:46amThe city of Cleveland has reason to rejoice. After all, LeBron James has led the Cavaliers to the NBA's Eastern Conference finals and has Cleveland fans hopeful of the town's...
HALL OF FAMER NOT KEEN ON DIRECTION GAME'S TAKEN
May 16, 2009 | 7:45amHE WILL be 91 this October, but that doesn't stop Bob Feller from throwing a rubber ball against a basketball backboard at his home in Gates Mills, Ohio, to keep...
ROTO FILES
May 16, 2009 | 7:43amHAS ANYONE else been inundated with trade offers for B.J. Upton? A powerful '08 postseason (seven homers in the first two rounds) on the heels of a 44-steal regular season...
OYSTER BAY HURLER AIMS TO FOLLOW SIBLING'S PATH
May 16, 2009 | 7:41amLooking at Kyle Hansen's face, you would have no idea that multiple radar guns are pointing directly at him. What's more impressive is that he's still in control. Hansen stands...
GOLD MEDALIST READY TO WARD OFF MIRANDA
May 16, 2009 | 7:40amANDRE Ward says it's time -- time for him to go from prospect to title challenger. Time for the Olympic Gold medal winner to earn some gold as a professional....
JOHN DASILVA'S STAKES SPOT PLAYS
May 16, 2009 | 7:35amDIXIE HANDICAP Pimlico, 11th race, Grade 2. Purse: $150,000. Mile-and-an-eighth, 4 year olds and up. Post: 5:13 p.m.PREAKNESS BETTOR'S GUIDE LOWDOWN: Bobby Frankel sends out a powerful entry of Proudinsky...
DIXON HAS BIG PLANS FOR PITT
May 16, 2009 | 7:29amThe rumor was that every morning when Ben Howland walked into his University of Pittsburgh basketball office, one of the first items he asked for was the score of the...
MISS CALI'S CANDOR: PAGEANTRY & PREJUDICE
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amLet's contemplate the true "blondness" of beauty queen Carrie Prejean's statement, "We live in a land where you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage" ("Justice Is Oh So Blond,"...
GOPER CHINA ENVOY
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amSALT LAKE CITY -- President Obama intends to name Utah's Republican Gov. Jon Huntsman, seen by many as a potential GOP presidential contender, to be ambassador to China, a source...
MASSACRE JUSTICE
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amThe "Palm Sunday Massacre" killer will not be breathing free air anytime soon. The state Parole Board yesterday denied a bid for freedom by Christopher Thomas, who executed two women...
SUBWAY SHOCK FOR NEW MOM
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amIt could have been the mother of all deliveries on the 4 train. A Queens woman who began having contractions in a subway car was helped to safety in time...
CONTROL FOE OF '02 NOW BACKS MIKE
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amQueens Assemblyman William Scarborough -- one of the few state legislators who voted against the 2002 law giving the mayor control of Big Apple schools -- is now a big...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amBrooklyn Cops are asking for the public's help to find the three thugs pictured below who are wanted for robbing and assaulting a couple in Sunset Park, cops said. On...
BAIR BLITZES BANK BOSSES
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amFederal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair predicted some bank chief executives will be replaced in the next several months as lenders subjected to financial stress tests review their management...
BLACKSTONE FREEZER-BURNED
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amSteve Schwarzman's bet on frozen food appears to be melting. In April 2007, the billionaire buyout king's firm The Blackstone Group paid $3 billion to buy Pinnacle Foods, which at...
TIM TO TAKE A TIMEOUT
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amTreasury Secretary Tim Geithner's grandiose plan to rid banks of their toxic assets is being delayed yet again. The Treasury was scheduled yesterday to choose at least five financial firms...
COPS MAKE CASH OF THE DAY
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amWhat kind of bait do you use to catch an ATM? Anglers are used to finding strange things in New York's waterways, but the NYPD spent yesterday fishing stolen cash...
ALL'S WELLS FOR BUFFETT
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amBillionaire investor Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway added to holdings of Wells Fargo and US Bancorp in the first quarter as the shares traded at their lowest prices in more than...
GM CUTTING DEALERS
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amGeneral Motors, facing a probable bankruptcy filing by June 1, told 1,100 "underperforming" US dealers they will be terminated as the automaker starts shrinking its retail network. Most of the...
DEADLY DISTRACTION
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amIT'S one doozy of a case of "he said, she said." House Speaker Nancy Pel osi, a senior Democrat, and the White House-appointed CIA director, Leon Panetta, are having a...
CO-PILOT'S GRIEVING KIN INSIST: 'REBECCA WAS A PRO'
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amThe giggly co-pilot of Buffalo-bound Flight 3407, which crashed in flames in February, was not an incompetent novice, her mother and husband said yesterday. First Officer Rebecca Shaw's family struck...
NOSY OCTO HOSP GETS 250G SLAP
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amLOS ANGELES -- The hospital where the Octomom gave birth in January has been fined $250,000 after workers there pried into her medical records. It is the first penalty under...
CREDIT SUISSE STALKS YELLOWSTONE
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amDays after a judge blasted Credit Suisse for arranging a loan the Yellowstone Club couldn't pay off, the bank asked the judge to rule it has won an auction for...
ROTH STEPS DOWN AT VORNADO
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amVornado Realty Trust has promoted Michael Fascitelli to CEO, replacing Steven Roth, who will remain chairman. The change is part of a "long-planned management-succession strategy," Vornado said in a statement....
$1M PIECE OF HEAVEN
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amHoly Ngbaka! A rare African statue of a heavenly messenger from the Congo's remote Ubangi region sold at auction yesterday for a stunning $1.25 million -- more than three times...
B'KLYN ARENA VICTOR RATNER: WE'RE READY TO DIG
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amAfter scoring a huge court victory yesterday, developer Bruce Ratner says he'll break ground on Brooklyn's embattled Atlantic Yards project this September -- and may even have the Nets playing...
BUTT BOOTLEGGING BUST
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amTwo Brooklyn bootleggers' scheme to hawk tax-free cigarettes went up in smoke yesterday when cops pulled over their truck -- and found 58,000 packs of Marlboros inside. Marvin Whatley, 30,...
PAINFUL REPEAT FOR A MRS. BUTTAFUOCO
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amBeing Joey Buttafuoco's wife is still a pretty unsafe job. The latest missus of the once-philandering Long Island grease monkey was allegedly attacked Monday by an unknown person outside the...
GIVING CREDIT ONLY WHERE IT'S DUE
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amI hear all too often from Americans who feel they've been ripped off. ALMOST all of us have a credit card, and almost all of us have a credit-card story....
GLOBAL GORE-ING
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amTHE the first thing you should avoid doing if Al Gore is around is voicing skepticism about catastrophic, human-caused global warming. He'll rip your reputation apart, just as he once...
HERO COP'S BRAVE STEP
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amA cop left brain-damaged when a lunatic stabbed him in the eye walked smiling out of Bellevue Hospital yesterday after a four-month battle to save his life. And Sgt. Timothy...
DEMOCRATS' LIES IN LABELING
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amIT'S time we applied the same advertising standards to Washington's legislative products that the feds apply to breakfast foods. The Food and Drug Administra tion rapped General Mills this week...
BILLIONAIRE GOLISANO FLEES NY OVER TAX
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amALBANY -- New York billionaire Tom Golisano is taking his big bucks elsewhere. Furious over a new "millionaire's tax" that could cost him an extra $1 million this year, the...
FRENCH TAKE FREED GOON
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amPARIS -- A Guantanamo Bay prisoner who was at the center of a Supreme Court battle over inmates' rights arrived yesterday in France, which agreed to take in the Algerian...
BUSINESS BRIEFS
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amEconomy The Fed said output at factories, mines and utili ties fell 0.5 percent last month, after revised de clines of 1.7 percent in March and 1 percent in February....
FLOATING FIX FOR HOBBLED HUBBLE
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amSpacewalking astronauts had to put a refurbished pair of gyroscopes into the Hubble Space Telescope after a brand new set refused to go in yesterday, but scientists were still satisfied....
LEYRITZ BOOZE TEST WRONG
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amThe failed Breathalyzer test that allegedly drove former Yankee slugger Jim Leyritz to consider suicide this week was a false positive, authorities said yesterday. Leyritz suffered a mental breakdown and...
NANCY PANTS ON FIRE
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amWASHINGTON -- In an astonishing broadside from a fellow Democrat, CIA Director Leon Panetta yesterday flatly rejected House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's charge that the agency had failed to fully inform...
BAM GIVES GITMO TRIALS NEW LIFE
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amWASHINGTON -- President Obama said yesterday he would reform and restart the military tribunals he once reviled for Guantanamo Bay detainees, jeopardizing his timetable for closing the prison by January....
'NOT ABOUT THE MONEY'
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amThe producer who sued the loved ones of a desperately ill Farrah Fawcett after being booted from her heart-wrenching cancer film project isn't looking for a big payday, he claimed...
CARRIER'S HAD DEADLY LAPSES
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amThere's something horrifically wrong with the wrenches at Colgan Air. The problem-plagued airline's maintenance rap sheet is littered with mechanical malfunctions, from badly installed bolts and rivets to deadly problems...
CENSUS PICK: IT'S HEADCOUNT ONLY
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amWASHINGTON -- President Obama's pick to lead the Census Bureau yesterday ruled out the use of statistical sampling in the 2010 head count, seeking to allay Republican concerns that he...
FLU-PRINCIPAL WIFE RIPS 'SLOW' MOVES
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amShame-faced city officials shuttered three more schools yesterday after taking heat for being slow to close three others where possible swine flu had been detected, leaving a Queens principal clinging...
THE REAL SHOCK OF HIGH ELECTRIC BILLS
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amFolks angry at Con Ed for its rate hikes should consider a new target. As The Post's Bill Sanderson has reported, only a portion of what's on a customer's bill...
SUPERCALIFRAGILISTIC EXPIALIDOCIOUS
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amHey, America! Hide the donuts! City Health Commissioner Tom Frieden is off to join the Obama administration, as head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This deals a...
PELOSI IN A PICKLE
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amCIA Director Leon Panetta yesterday let House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a fellow Democrat, have it with both barrels. Without naming his one-time House colleague -- who, a day earlier, had...
DONER ADMITS DISCLOSURE VIOLATION
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amThe head of Detroit ad firm Doner, which is being sued over its pension-plan practices, admitted yesterday that his firm violated federal law when it failed to disclose workers' retirement...
BLOOMY GIVES 'EM HAIL
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amMayor Bloomberg took another shot at the taxi-tax portion of the state's MTA bailout plan yesterday -- saying he doubts revenue collectors will be able to concoct an effective system...
CASH-STRAPPED TIMES MULLS MEMBER$HIP DRIVE
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amDesperate to cover $3.1 billion in liabilities and plunging income, The New York Times might use a bailout trick that's worked wonders for other worthy causes -- pledge cash and...
FEDS THROW DIMON A BONE
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amUncle Sam has granted JPMorgan's CEO Jamie Dimon at least a small consolation prize after forcing the firm and other senior lenders to take massive losses on debt tied to...
OBAMA TELLS GILLIBRAND FOE STEVE ISRAEL TO STAND DOWN
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amIf President Obama didn't have enough on his plate already, he's now thrust himself into the middle of a statewide race that has sparked growing resentment among some New York...
NEW MAJORITY OF 'PRO-LIFERS'
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amA Gallup Poll released yesterday found that 51 percent of Americans now call themselves pro-life rather than pro-choice on abortion, the first time a majority gave that answer in the...
MILLION$ FOR MIKE'S EASY RUN
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amDespite enjoying a comfortable lead in every poll, Mayor Bloomberg has ripped through a record $18.6 million in his lopsided campaign for a third term, filings released yesterday show. With...
MOWED DOWN
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amA Long Island man due to close on a new home yesterday instead wound up dead in the street in a horrific road-rage incident that began when he was cut...
DEATH AIRLINE IN NEW SCARE
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amCommuter carrier Colgan Air is quickly becoming the airline from hell. Exactly three months after a Colgan puddle-jumper crashed outside Buffalo, killing 50 people, a plane of the same model...
BUG HITS RIKERS INMATE
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amAn inmate at Rikers Island has come down with a case of swine flu, the Department of Correction said last night. The male jailbird first became sick on Wednesday, and...
A-ROD MUST MAKE NEW STADIUM HOME
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amALEX Rodriguez is no longer a stranger in his brand new house. BOX SCORERIPKEN WANTS ANSWERS FROM A-ROD Rodriguez made his way through the Yankee Stadium clubhouse yesterday and asked,...
COMBINES WITH GARDNER TO FASHION RALLY BIG WIN
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amMelky Cabrera's flair for the dramatic at the new Yankee Stadium continued last night -- with a "flare" for the dramatic. BOX SCORERIPKEN WANTS ANSWERS FROM A-ROD The resurgent Yankees...
CHILD'S GIFT GIVES GARDNER BOOST
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amAfter speaking to the media on one of the biggest nights of his young career, Brett Gardner reached into his locker stall in the Yankees clubhouse and found a small...
CALGARY TOO ROUGH FOR TITANS
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amThere won't be a ticker-tape parade for the New York Titans. There won't be a horde of fans at the airport waiting for them. And none of them will be...
TEX, DAMON IN ALTERCATIONS
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amIt is a play that has taken a hefty toll on first basemen over the years, reaching inside across the bag to accept a fielder's throw in the face of...
TISDALE SUCCUMBS TO CANCER
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amWayman Tisdale, a three-time All-American at Oklahoma who played 12 seasons in the NBA, died after a two-year battle with cancer. He was 44. Tisdale died yesterday morning at St....
EX-PGA CHAMP DIES
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amPALM SPRINGS, Calif. -- Bob Rosburg, who won the 1959 PGA Championship and spent three decades with ABC Sports as the first reporter to call the shots from the golf...
RED BULLS HOST DYNAM-IC FOE
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amThe Red Bulls, in the midst of a four-game homestand, look for their second straight win tonight when they take on the Houston Dynamo (7:30 PM, MSG, WQBU 92.7 FM)....
I'D LOVE TO WIN PREAKNESS IN FRONT OF DAD
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amGary Stute, 52, trains Arkansas Derby winner Papa Clem, a solid fourth in the Kentucky Derby. This week, Stute shares his thoughts with Post readers as he prepares Papa Clem...
AGENT: 2 TEAMS TARGETING PLAX
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amTwo NFL teams are "very serious" about signing former Giants receiver Plaxico Burress, his agent said yesterday. Drew Rosenhaus used his Twitter page to announce, "Ran wind sprints with Plaxico...
HONDO ON 'FIRE' AGAIN
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amHondo's seemingly certain comeback victory with the Brewers was washed out last night in St. Loo so his semi-bulbous wad held firm at 220 cavarrettas. Today, he'll take another shot...
'PAYTON' WINS BY DAYLIGHT
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amBALTIMORE -- Trainer Larry Jones, hoping that his colt Friesan Fire bounces back big time in today's Preakness after finishing next-to-last as the favorite in the Kentucky Derby, got a...
OCHOA DEALING WITH BURDEN OF BEING NO. 1 PLAYER
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amTHE burden of expectations. Tiger Woods has been living with them for years. Now Lorena Ochoa is living with them. This is what happens when an athlete sets the bar...
BRUNEY COULD REJOIN BOMBERS BY NEXT WEEKEND
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amThe Yankees' bullpen could get a much-needed boost by next weekend. Manager Joe Girardi was hopeful after reliever Brian Bruney threw 35 pitches in a side session yesterday and reported...
DELGADO TO DL LOOKS MORE LIKELY
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amSAN FRANCISCO -- The Mets' actions and manager Jerry Manuel's words here yesterday appeared to make Carlos Delgado's trip to the disabled list a foregone conclusion. The Mets had said...
FLORIDIAN CHARGES TO TOP AT SYBASE
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amBrittany Lincicome struggled through a horrible 2008, and this winter she had a soul-searching heart-to-heart with her parents about stepping away from the game she loves. Since then, she's stepped...
PHELPS SMOKES 'EM
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amCHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Sporting a goatee and an old-school swimsuit, Michael Phelps picked up right where he left off in Beijing. Two races. Two wins. The world's greatest swimmer left...
MANNY BEING SORRY
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amMIAMI -- An "anxious" Manny Ramirez apologized to his Dodgers teammates yesterday, the first time he was around the club since being suspended for 50 games for using a banned...
SPORTS SHORTS
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amSPORTS SHORTSNFL: Salary cap goes up by $12M Teams will have nearly $12 million more under the salary cap this season, the final year with one in place unless the...
RED SOX BENCH ORTIZ, FALL TO M'S
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amSEATTLE -- Ichiro Suzuki hit a go-ahead two-run homer in the sixth inning and connected twice overall, and the Seattle Mariners rallied from four runs down to beat the Boston...
METS STAGE AMAZIN' RALLY IN SAN FRAN
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amSAN FRANCISCO -- There's still no quit in these short-handed Mets. Calmly shaking off a four-run deficit against the National League's reigning Cy Young winner, the continued absence of three...
XAVERIAN FOOTBALL STAR EXCITED TO JOIN VIRGINIA
May 16, 2009 | 6:42amHow many 18-year-olds who are given scholarships to play Division I football know their impending school's academic rank? "Academic-wise, Virginia is ranked No. 23," said Oday Aboushi, the 6-foot-6, 300-pound...
WHAT'S UP?
May 16, 2009 | 4:34amTODAY MARCH OF THE PENGUINS: When was the last time you saw a mohawked vaudeville duo duck flying pingpong balls? Clearly, you've missed GA-MAR-JO-BAT, Japan's answer to crazy physical comedy....
MAMMAL MIA!
May 16, 2009 | 4:33amMEET the family -- and what an odd-looking group it is. We're talking armadillos and whales, anteaters and koalas and, yes, homo sapiens. Apparently, we've got more (and less) in...
HIGH DRINKS
May 16, 2009 | 4:31amWITH summer comes the opening of new outdoor bars, each with its highs and its lows. Take your vertigo medication, bring some sunscreen and remember that imbibing at high altitudes...
Johnson TKOs Vargas in 6
May 16, 2009 | 4:27amKevin Johnson wins heavyweight battle in A.C.Press Release ATLANTIC CITY--Joe DeGuardia's Star Boxing presented a thrilling five bout card at The Concert Venue at Harrah's Resort in Atlantic City, NJ....
'SCRUBS' IN
May 16, 2009 | 4:11am'SCRUBS" is inching closer to a ninth sea son, with stars Zach Braff and Sarah Chalke returning for six episodes. Donald Faison, John C. McGinley and Neil Flynn will all...
SAVORING KOBE'S TAKE
May 16, 2009 | 4:11amListening to Kobe talk about Kobe is only for the hardest of hard-core fans, no matter what he's teaching. IT'S too bad ESPN is showing Spike Lee's documentary on Kobe...
MARY-LOUISE PARKER'S NAKED RAGE
May 16, 2009 | 4:11amMARY-Louise Parker is still sulking over her nude scene from last season's "Weeds" finale. She claims that she was "goaded" into doing a scene involving a lingering shot of her...
QUEENS ASST. PRINCIPAL MITCHELL WIENER DEAD FROM SWINE FLU
May 16, 2009 | 4:00amSwine flu has become deadly in New York City. The Queens assistant principal stricken with the now-deadly H1N1 virus succumbed to the illness late today, the first known fatality in...
What the Hull! United Must Play Fair
May 16, 2009 | 2:49amManchester United manager Alex Ferguson said he will take the plight of other clubs into mind should his club head to Hull next week with the title already in their...
Reyes expected Saturday
May 16, 2009 | 2:32amSAN FRANCISCO -- Jose Reyes was out of the lineup for the second consecutive game tonight due to a calf strain, but Jerry Manuel all but guaranteed Reyes would be...
U.S. Under-17 National Team plays doubleheader vs. RBNY academy prospects
May 16, 2009 | 2:06amThe U.S. Under-17 National Team played a split-squad doubleheader against the Red Bulls' academy prospects tonight at NJIT in Newark. In the first game, the Red Bull U-16s tied the...
Mets prep Delgado DL stint
May 16, 2009 | 12:21amSAN FRANCISCO -- The Mets' actions and Jerry Manuel's words here today appeared to make Carlos Delgado's trip to the disabled list a foregone conclusion. The Mets had said they...