September 8, 2009
Maine set to come back Sunday
John Maine’s comeback became official today when Jerry Manuel said the right-hander would start the second game of a Sunday’s day-night doubleheader at Philadelphia. Maine, who has been on the...
Beltran upbeat upon return
On Monday in The Bronx, CC Sabathia insisted his goal was not to win 20 games this season. His goal was to have success in the playoffs and take home...
Woodhead on practice squad
Danny Woodhead is back with the Jets. The small and shifty running back was signed to the practice squad Tuesday, two days after being cut. The Jets released fullback Jehuu...
Scrappers at Cyclones
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Mets promote righty Stoner
A week after calling up catcher Josh Thole, the Mets made their only other September promotion today when right-hander Tobi Stoner had his contract selected from Triple-A Buffalo. Stoner, who...
Jay Leno says it's 'bad times' for TV
JAY Leno is trying to explain why a major TV network would give him a show at 10 o’clock at night, five nights a week. And even he has to...
No. 2 Murray shocked by Cilic
Andy Murray was quietly moving along at the U.S. Open. Now he is quietly going home. The second-seeded Englishman was crushed by the 16th-ranked Marin Cilic on Arthur Ashe Stadium...
Del Potro's easy road to quarterfinals
Juan Monaco, Jurgen Melzer, Daniel Koellerer and Juan Carlos Ferrero.It hasn’t exactly been a who’s who of hardcourt players that Juan Martin del Potro has beaten on his way to...
An Irish spin
In today's paper, I reviewed "Spinning the Times," a collection of five monologues by five Irish authors at 59E59 Theaters. The show is part of the confusingly titled 1st Irish...
Jon Gosselin addresses 'America,' despises Kate
It’s Jon Gosselin turn to air his dirty emotional laundry on TV. The “Jon & Kate Plus 8” star revealed that he has absolutely no love for his soon-to-be ex-wife...
Rhodes provides false hope
Were the Jets plotting a trade to land Brandon Marshall? Was Leon Washington getting the contract extension that would keep the explosive back in green for the foreseeable future?Neither of...
Game 138: Marlins at Mets
All-Star center fielder Carlos Beltran's anticipated return to the Mets highlights tonight's opener of a three-game series with the Marlins at Citi Field.Beltran, who has been on the disabled list since...
Lifetime to tackle teen 'Pregnancy'
Lifetime will dramatize the infamous teen "pregnancy pact" that made national headlines last year. The movie, no surprise, will be called "Pregnancy Pact" and will be based on the case...
Clijsters has no problem with Na
There was no letdown for Kim Clijsters this afternoon on Arthur Ashe Stadium.Two days after surviving No. 3 Venus Williams, Clijsters beat up on China’s Li Na, 6-2, 6-4, to...
Candidate Profile: Steve Levin
It is lunchtime at the Krakus Senior Club at 176 Java Street, one of about a dozen senior centers in the 33rd District.A youthful and ebullient Steve Levin waits for...
Fed Money helps boro
Brooklyn’s growing reputation as one of the preeminent biotech centers of the country took another step forward recently with a $3 million federal grant to fund an addition to SUNY...
Transfer school opens in Canarsie against public
In spite of community opposition, a transfer high school is opening in the new school building on East 107th Street.“On one hand, it’s a good concept to reach out and...
Soderling’s unfortunate Grand Slams
Robin Soderling could be having a season for the ages if it was not for Roger Federer. Tomorrow the 25-year-old Swede will run into Federer in his third straight Grand...
Oudin, Clijsters have stolen men's thunder
Talk around the media room as the U.S. Open kicked off last week was how the men’s draw had a lot more juice than the women’s. A lot can change...
Castillo cleared for U.S. duty
Follow the Post’s soccer coverage on Twitter! Edgar Castillo has been cleared to play for the U.S. National Team. The American-born left back has switched from Mexico to the U.S.,...
Two from the Northwest
Last night I caught a double bill of Pacific Northwest companies as part of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater's Incubator series. First up was "Undine" by Portland's Hand2Mouth. It actually was more...
Pet Shop Boys and theater
Pet Shop Boys are playing Hammerstein Ballroom tonight and tomorrow. Why do I mention this in a theater blog? Because as I explain in the preview I wrote today, the...
Camp Wanatachi
My Fringe experience concluded last night with "Camp Wanatachi" at Dixon Place. This musical sports music, lyrics and book by Natalie Weiss, is directed by Natalie Weiss, and co-stars Natalie...
A streetcar named Huppert
Not that I am obsessed with Isabelle Huppert but ... yeah, I'm kinda obsessed. She's one of the most magnetic actresses currently working, and I love the fact that in...
Bargains & Blood
Blair Fell is a reliable name when you're looking for kitsch-fueled good times -- he created the long-running live soap "Burning Habits," and I have a certain fondness for his...
Trigger Approach
Liberal Dems willing to negotiate on health reforms (Roll Call)
Misusing the House?
David Rogers says Obama should rethink (Politico)
Obama and the Left
Lessons from Van Jones (Wall Street Journal)
Coverage in The Post
The Mets open a three-game series with Florida tonight at Citi Field, and a familiar (and somewhat unexpected) face will be back in their lineup for the first time in...
Lobbyist Attack
We can all get along (PolitBureau)
GOP Life
Big election year (Rochester Democrat & Chronicle)
Bam vs. Democracy
Doug Bandow says do less abroad (Huffington Post)
3UP: Jeter, Yankees Surge and Sabathia
Yes, I am on Twitter.I am experiencing computer problems this morning, so forgive me for being brief to just get something posted on the blog.1. I wrote my column in...
The Daily Whacks, Tuesday Edition
There are a lot of reasons why Yankee Stadium is transformed into a planetarium of flashes and bursts of light whenever Derek Jeter walks to the plate now, a mass...
Reality TV Tryouts: 'Sing Off'
How to get your 15 seconds of fame. THIS WEEK "The Sing Off" Time to get the barbershop quartet back together! It's "American Idol" for a cappella groups. When: Sept....
Families Charade
Queens Gazette says WFP is warned Room Eight says WFP is caught
50 STATES: Idaho
IT WAS the chorizo that really clinched it. Everywhere I went in Boise, the spicy sausage popped up on menus. At breakfast power-hub Goldy’s, it was the choice alongside ham...
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Fordham Prep's Bruce is born to run
Pete Gorynski had his team figured out. But then the Fordham Prep football coach did a 180 during a four-way scrimmage Saturday. “I thought this year defense was going to...
Forfeits start before PSAL girls soccer season opens
The first game of the PSAL girls soccer season has fallen before it started. School of the Future has already asked for an early forfeit in its game against Beacon...
'Idol' misses Paula
IT was bound to happen -- now the "Idol" people say they "miss" Paula Abdul. Simon Cowell spoke for the first time about Paula's abrupt departure last month, telling a...
'Big Bro' boom
IT only took nine years -- but "Big Brother" is finally a hit. Just as the rest of the world grows tired of the social-experiment TV series -- Britain canceled...
OMG Annie caught sexting on '90210' premiere
YOU know those photos of Hollywood starlets that weren't meant to be made public -- but somehow end up leaked all over the Internet? Well, it happens tonight on the...
Oprah outside
OPRAH tapes her season opener today on a four-block stretch of the busiest street in downtown Chicago. Fans have been warned to bring their own food and own chairs and...
Mixed opinion of metaphor-laden show
THE problem with a show made up of five long mono logues by five different au thors is that the offerings are likely to be uneven. The only suspense is...
The kitsch is back on 'Melrose'
BACK when Buddha was a baby, I loved cuddling up to the easy sleaze of "Melrose Place." The affairs, the secrets, the relentless criminal activity among that group of insanely...
Debt collector's ID snafu 'ruins my life'
She should be in medical school by now, on her way to becoming a pediatrician. Instead, Rachel Lindor is a college dropout, sharing a room with her sister in Brooklyn...
'Skank order' sought
The e-mailer didn't use the words "skank" or "ho," but he might as well have -- and now a Queens firm wants to know his identity. Taking a page from...
Cigar trick skirts law
RICHMOND, Va. -- The nation's top distributor of clove cigarettes is offering users a new way to get their fix after the flavored cigarettes are banned later this year --...
Halal heavies 'strong-arm' vendors
Try to move in on a city food vendor's turf and there'll be halal to pay. Newcomers to the city's food-cart wars say that when they stake a claim to...
Yet Another Foreign-Policy Fumble
THE Obama administra tion is getting ready to throw the proposed Eastern European-based US missile-defense system under the bus. The move is a sop to the Russians (and to lefties...
Rangel Makes Good
*** Your editorial asserting that the House health-reform bill would somehow "prohibit the IRS from forgiving taxpayers who erred in good faith," is not only inflammatory, but inaccurate ("Fire Rangel,"...
Dupre's Sex in the City: An Average Outtake?
THE ISSUE: Ex-prostitute Ashley Dupre's blog post defending herself to the media. *** While it's true that most women desire to be pampered as well as to be presented with...
Israel defies US on settlers
JERUSALEM -- Israel officially approved construction of hundreds of new homes in the West Bank, the Defense Ministry said yesterday, deepening the already unprecedented rift with the United States over...
Chasing Ethics Out of New York
THE New York State Commis sion on Public Integrity is on the hunt for public cor ruption -- and it's leaving no hors d'oeuvre unturned. The party police recently charged...
Mr. Bam to offer a lesson
President Obama will tell the nation's kids today to get real -- and stop dreaming of becoming as famous as rap stars, NBA players or reality TV contestants. "I know...
'Smashed' Hamptons pol is busted in DWI
The supervisor needed some supervision. Embattled Southampton Town Supervisor Linda Kabot was charged with DWI early yesterday after not keeping to her lane on Main Street in Westhampton Beach. The...
Downtown-rebuild plan spurs park row
For hundreds of Battery Park City families, the reconstruction in lower Manhattan will soon mean the loss of a tranquil, tree-lined refuge where children have played on tire swings in...
Bam vs. Democracy
PRESIDENT Obama's State Department waited until the cusp of Labor Day weekend before publicly backing Latin America's dictators in their assault on democracy. Our thug-worshipping diplomats figured they'd slip it...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Manhattan * An Upper East Side woman returned home to find her electronic equipment missing, police sources said yesterday. The woman left her apartment on East 69th Street near First...
Getting their glass in gear
IF you're a High Line stroller baffled by the unfinished project at 450 W. 14th St., which straddles the wildly popular new park, you're not alone. We were curious, too,...
Tragic 9/11 hero honored
Eight years after perishing at Ground Zero, a volunteer Long Island firefighter was finally awarded the 9/11 Heroes Medal of Valor Award yesterday at a park named in his honor....
Lobbyist attack
THE crucial battle to pick a new state GOP chairman pits the forces that de stroyed a once-ascendant party against a grassroots movement that mirrors the efforts that produced the...
NFLer: I only kept Tila safe
He'd do it again. NFL linebacker Shawne Merriman -- busted for allegedly choking and restraining busty MTV personality Tila Tequila -- yesterday claimed the tiny starlet was drunk and that...
Ted nephew out of race
BOSTON -- Joseph P. Kennedy II, Bobby Kennedy's eldest son, yesterday announced he would not run for the US Senate seat held for nearly 50 years by his uncle Teddy...
Why Mrs. O has right to 'bare' arms
WASHINGTON -- At last, the secret to First Lady Michelle Obama's sculpted arms: pushdowns and hammer curls. So says Cornell McClellan, Mrs. Obama's longtime personal trainer, who describes her workout...
Here's what some unemployed folks are thinking
BEING unemployed on Labor Day, I guess, is a little like being lactose intolerant during an ice cream social. You feel completely left out. Rutgers University's John J. Heldrich Center...
So much for packing a, um, rod
It's a lesson he should have learned from Plaxico Burress -- but this was worse. A 15-year-old Brooklyn boy shot himself in the penis Sunday after fumbling with a gun...
Chimp-ly irresistible
It's the strongest call of the wild -- a mother's instinct. Anjana the chimp doesn't seem to notice that the new baby in her care is a 9-week-old puma cub...
It's an inn-sult!
An influential security group with White House connections is campaigning to stop a posh New York hotel from hosting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is scheduled to address the United...
Signs of GOP life
At long last, the New York state Republican Party is showing signs of life. Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani reportedly has told associates that he'll decide within 60 days whether to...
Working families charade
Looks like the hard-left Working Families Party is up to its electoral shenanigans again. And this time, even the city's Campaign Finance Board smells a rat. At issue is a...
City steamed over HS records dump
A high-school cleanup bungle that left boxes of confidential student records dumped on a Manhattan street had education officials red-faced yesterday -- and City Hall fuming. The principal of the...
Beaten fireman critical
A city firefighter was fighting for his life last night after being repeatedly hit in the head by two men and a woman early yesterday in the Staten Island Ferry's...
Ranks of uninsured are dwindling in NYC
Bucking the national trend of a rising number of uninsured, New York City has provided health coverage to more than 1 million additional residents over the past decade. The shrinking...
Slay teen's tragic tale
The young woman who was stabbed to death and dumped in a Bronx alleyway was a 17-year-old runaway trying to turn her life around, the victim's foster mother said yesterday....
Kraft still hungry for a taste of Cadbury
Oreo cookie-maker Kraft has touched off a global food fight for control of chocolate giant Cadbury. Cadbury surprised the snacks industry yesterday by rejecting Kraft's $16.7 billion offer a week...
Gov says AG probe of State Police worth it
Gov. Paterson yesterday defended his request for an investigation into the State Police by the attorney general after findings that no major wrongdoing occurred were leaked to the press. "I...
Business briefs
Madoff Fairfield Greenwich, the finance company tied to Bernard Madoff's $60 billion Ponzi scheme, faces a hearing tomorrow before Massachusetts Secretary of State Wil liam Galvin after the of fice...
2 slays before B'klyn parade
A swath of Brooklyn turned into a costume, music and food spectacle yesterday as the annual West Indian Day Parade melded culture and politics. The day began on a violent...
'Excuse' is off the wall
The grandmother of an Illinois boy allegedly kidnapped by his mom and held captive for more than two years in her home claims the child spent "maybe five minutes" in...
Google Earth take its lumps in Europe and China
Speedy Google is starting to stumble on the world stage. Europe raised more objections yesterday about the US search giant's book-scanning project, spurring Google to say it would likely consider...
Blaze of glory
Salvatore Giallombardo suffers from emphysema, but when he saw smoke billowing from a burning house and learned that a 14-year-old boy was still upstairs, the Long Island grandfather sprang into...
Learning to be green
They'll be studying medicine, business, Hebrew and green living at public schools this year -- and that's just the youngest kids. The Department of Education is opening 66 new charter...
First kids' first day back
After a summer spent globetrotting with Mom and Dad -- including trips to Russia, Paris and Africa -- it's back to the books for First Daughters Malia and Sasha Obama....
It's scam and eggs for granny
A granny is toast after serving herself a generous helping of grand larceny at a Midtown hotel -- by skimming the cream off customers' breakfast bills. Mary Comis, 62, pleaded...
Teacher pool's full despite vacancies
As of Friday, 1,757 teachers who had been cut from closing or shrinking schools didn't have a classroom to report to tomorrow -- despite nearly 1,500 open positions at schools....
Bx. dad dies in Jet Ski horror
A Bronx family's holiday Jet Ski outing yesterday ended in a crash that killed a father in front of his horrified teenage daughter and niece, authorities said. Nelson Aquilar, 37,...
Trouble in paradise: Antigua jails six NYers
Life's a beach. Six New Yorkers earned an all-expense-paid weekend in an Antiguan clink after getting into a wild scrum with cops. The pals, who had taken a cruise to...
Sudan 'pants' gal won't be hemmed in
KHARTOUM, Sudan -- A female journalist was convicted yesterday of public indecency for wearing pants, but was spared a sentence of flogging. A defiant Lubna Hussein said she would not...
'Liquid' bombers are guilty
LONDON -- Three British Muslims were convicted yesterday of plotting to murder thousands of people by downing at least seven airliners bound for the United States and Canada in what...
Buildings graft shocker
AT LEAST six city building inspectors -- some with ties to a powerful crime family -- were videotaped taking bribes at construction sites, and some were seen dealing cocaine and...
Comptroller wannabe slams 'death duo' foes
City Comptroller candidate David Weprin is lashing out at two of his leading primary rivals in a blistering final-week campaign mailing, slamming them for "double talk" over the death penalty....
Ou-ray! A new upset at Open
Teen tennis phenom Melanie Oudin served up another upset victory yesterday, surging back from a first-set pounding to win in three sets over Nadia Pe trova and advancing to the...
Gloss comes off
With the economy wilting and the advertising market in contraction, magazines are struggling for their very survival. According to the latest data from the Audit Bureau of Circulations, Playboy and...
Going off the rails
Stand clear of the soaring cost overruns! The price tag for the MTA's already-way-overbudget Fulton Street Transit Center just went up by another $40 million. The stalled project, which was...
Zagat-about 'em
After failing to sell their guidebook empire for $200 million, Upper West Siders Tim and Nina Zagat are not only putting off their retirement plans, they're struggling to keep it...
Yankees lower broom to eclipse Derek's 0-fer
Derek Jeter can look at the bright side: Lou Gehrig didn't get any hits yesterday, either. A day that was successful on almost every level for the Yankees -- a...
Burnett gets back on track
A.J. Burnett said he "attacked with a purpose" last night. "I didn't throw anything that I didn't want to throw," Burnett said. "Every pitch I had conviction behind it 100...
Beltran back in Citi tonight
As far as the Mets and injuries are concerned, there are no sure things except more woes around the corner. But Carlos Beltran's long road back appears to be complete,...
Mark it down: Sanchez has 'it'
MARK Sanchez knows the odds are stacked against him. For all his newfound millions and all the possibilities the future holds for him, he knows none of that means a...
Cyclones, Baby Bombers begin quest for title
Although there isn't a chance for another Subway Series between the Mets and Yankees this season, the potential for playoff baseball between two professional baseball teams in New York is...
Oudin impresses teary-eyed mom
Leslie Oudin, Melanie's mother, says fans' adoration for her 17-year-old daughter is a product of a stale women's game. Oudin, now Georgia's sweetest peach, became the youngest woman to advance...
Oudin Cinderella story rolls on
Melanie Oudin added another chapter to her fairy-tale U.S. Open. Oudin, the unseeded 17-year-old spark plug from Marietta, Ga., who has won the hearts of Flushing with a string of...
Buehrle outduels Beckett
Mark Buehrle won for the first time since pitching a perfect game on July 23, ending his eight-start drought by leading the White Sox over the Red Sox 5-1 yesterday...
Canty may play in Giants opener
Even among the men on the Giants, Chris Canty is a giant of a man, meaning there was no place for him to hide, even when he wasn't really there....
Coughlin sees Woodson as Benedict Andre
Andre Woodson spent all of last season on the Giants' practice squad and all of this offseason and training camp with the Giants. He was cut on Saturday and immediately...
And the winners (& losers) are ...
BUSY week. Let's get right to it, shall we? Best Performance: If horse racing still made more news and noise than the combined returns of Michael Vick and Brett Favre,...
Good to be young and fearless
PERHAPS it is because Melanie Oudin is 17 years old and has her life in front of her that she feels she can afford to wait. "If they are going...
Hondo sees Cats
Hondo celebrated Labor Day with a workmanlike victory by the Chisox, who stopped the Red Sawx to reduce the deficit to 805 aguirres. Tonight, he'll try the Porcello in Kansas...
Delaware Analysis
Today's analysis.1. 6f; $13,000; cl($5,000); 3upIDOLIZER drew the rail after finishing second at this level while going shorter. COUNTRY MOGGIE finished second at this distance and level two back. DIAMOND ACCOUNT...
NYRA gets boost from Spa's take
SARATOGA SPRINGS -- In a year when overall wagering on thoroughbred racing in the United States is down 11 percent, New York Racing Association officials declared victory when the all-sources...
Sabathia proving to be new 'Iron Horse'
Yankees legend Lou Gehrig was "The Iron Horse." Every fifth day, CC Sabathia threatens to appropriate that nickname for himself. Sabathia delivered for the Yankees again yesterday afternoon, firing seven...
Like old times for McEnroe
John McEnroe made his U.S. Open comeback as a player late last night to a roaring Arthur Ashe Stadium crowd. Novak Djokovic's next opponent was supposed to be Fernando Verdasco,...
Stafford will start for Lions
Matthew Stafford won the Lions' quarterback derby. Daunte Culpepper didn't lose the job. That's what Detroit's new coach, Jim Schwartz, emphasized yesterday when he made the No. 1 overall draft...
Tex blasts off vs. Tampa Bay
Mark Teixeira hasn't put on a power display like this in four years. Teixeira owns a commanding home-run lead on the Yankees right now, and though the superstar first baseman...
No American men left after Isner 'L'
Andy Roddick probably wanted to kick a wall in his Gramercy Park pad yesterday. John Isner is ranked 55th and showed why. The U.S. Open men's draw -- for the...
Sneaky, relentless brilliance from Jeter
THERE is a shorthand to Derek Jeter's huge postseason hits. First pitch off Bobby Jones. Mr. November against Byung-Hyun Kim. Jeffrey Maier. A few words conjure thousands of images and...
Stricker wins by 1, tops Cup standings
NORTON, Mass. -- With his victory yesterday in the Deutsche Bank Championship, Steve Stricker claimed the biggest victory of his career and replaced Tiger Woods atop the FedEx Cup standings....
What a relief! Mo feels 'good' in return
Mariano Rivera's latest save brought a huge sigh of relief from the Yankees. In his first appearance since aggravating a left groin injury last Tuesday, Rivera yesterday worked a scoreless...
Nothing phony about this quest
THERE has been much specula tion recently about Derek Jeter's next contract, and though we can't pretend to know what it will look like once his current 10-year, $189 million...
Sports shorts
FOOTBALL: Sooners QB Bradford out 2-4 weeks Heisman Trophy winner Sam Bradford is not expected to need surgery on his sprained right shoulder and the quarterback could play again for...
Vintage Masters the Cane
It was a vintage performance in the $325,000 Cane Pace yesterday afternoon at Freehold Raceway. Vintage Master, the 7-5 favorite driven by Daniel Dube, put on quite a show, winning...
Liberty playing for pride
The Liberty will play host to the Indiana Fever tonight (7:30, no TV) at the Garden with only pride on the line. Their spirited push for a playoff spot was...
Weird but true
Everyone's day includes some ups and downs -- but this has to be a record. Joe Frolick, whose hobby is jumping out of planes, did it 100 times last Friday...
Rutgers flops in opener
"Look, if you had one shot or one opportunity to seize everything you ever wanted in one moment, would you capture it or just let it slip?" -- Eminem PISCATAWAY,...
Hurricanes stop 'Noles
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Jacoby Harris passed for 386 yards -- including a 40-yard pass over double coverage to Travis Benjamin, setting up Graig Cooper's 3-yard touchdown run with 1:53 left...
New York City HS football rankings
The weather has begun to cool down and Labor Day has come and gone. It must be football season. The PSAL has already kicked off in a big way with...
Additions have Columbus boys soccer thinking big
Before summer practices began, Jason Renick was already excited about his Columbus boys soccer team’s prospects. Although the Explorers graduated star striker Stephen Furze, center midfielder Bah Williams and fullback...
Beacon searching for consistent offense, title
Beacon graduated one of the city’s best players in sweeper Chelsea Davies, along with two other key defenders from a team that lost in the PSAL Class A final last...