March 6, 2007
Right Arm Report
Who knows how it will turn out for Phil Hughes and Ross Ohlendorf? Nobody can predict what will become of their talented right arms. But for the first time in...
START PHIL HUGHES
Scouts I???ve talked to are not thrilled with Kei Igawa. They see him as a reliever, a sometime starter. Meanwhile Dice-K had a good outing today against the Marlins. If...
Decent outing for Glavine
By MARK HALE Tom Glavine wrapped up his outing, tossing three scoreless innings.Glavine gave up four hits and a walk - he had two baserunners in the first inning and...
Naughty, Naughty
I wonder what Borat would think of the news that the Weinsteins are in the process of dubbing "Nomad,'' Kazakhstan's submission for the foreign-language award at this year's Oscars, into...
Second Life Creeps Me Out
To my horror, a note about Second Life being brought ???into the real world??? arrived in my inbox this morning. I feared the worst, of course, but it turns out...
Delgado, etc.
By MARK HALEThere won't be any Carlos Delgado today in Kissimmee. Delgado's neck is stiff ("I need a new pillow," he said).There's a shot that Delgado could go to Fort...
Give Francis a break
By MARC BERMANNo David Lee or Nate Robinson tonight again. Lee will rest his sprained ankle a few more days before making his return Saturday. It's the smart call. If...
Deal of the Day
Lulu Frost, the jewelry line created by Lisa Salzer famously makes one of a kind treasures with everything from steel cut shoe buckles from the 1890s to the room numbers...
Cash and Carrie
One of Hollywood's most unusual filmographies belongs to the singer Eddie Fisher, who starred opposite his first wife Debbie Reynolds in "Bundle of Joy'' (1956), then opposite his second wife...
Day 25: Reyes vs. Jeter
In the course of interviewing Mets hitting coach Rick Down about Jose Reyes, Down stated flatly, ???Jose is the best shortstop in the National League.???I wondered what Rafael Furcal and...
LIVEBLOG/BERLIN: Day 4 That big mall
Something's been bugging me about my neighborhood. You know Potsdamer Platz, that big, grand, sweeping urban redevelopment project planned to create a sort of Times Square in Berlin? What a...
THE BLOG OF YORE
OH, the tragedy of the abandoned blog. Bestblogintheworld.blogspot.com, updated only seven times before throwing in the towel in early 2004, contains final entries noting, "Im a playa, im a playa,"...
TAYLOR 'LOSS' IS OUR GAIN
PAUL Taylor, in my book, is the greatest living choreographer - so when his now 52-year-old troupe, the Paul Taylor Dance Company, opens its annual City Center season, it's always...
MY NAME IS 'BILL W.,' AND I'M A BAD PLAY
WHO would have guessed a drama about the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous would be the laugh riot of the year? But that's the unfortunate result of "Bill W. and Dr....
ANATOMY OF GRAY MATTERS
'THE biggest thing I fear about my death," Spalding Gray once said, "is that I won't be around to talk about it." True enough. But while the celebrated storyteller died...
STARR REPORT
Friend or faux Joy Behar and Elisabeth Hasselbeck tape a faux seg ment of "The View" tomor row on the show's set for the April 20 episode of ABC stab...
WEDDING FRIGHT
JERRY Seinfeld used to say in his stand-up act that no one wants to give up a Saturday night to go to your wedding but you. Fox's new show, "The...
'LAGUNA' BUST 3
REALITY TV wash-up Jason Wahler, who appeared on "Laguna Beach," has been arrested for the third time since last fall. This time the 20-year-old was nabbed for underage drinking at...
SPRINGER SITS IN FOR REEG
JERRY Springer is replacing Regis Philbin as host of "America's Got Talent" and Brandy is still on the show - at least for now. NBC officials aren't commenting, but insiders...
FRENCHIE FUMING
'AMERICAN Idol" finalist Frenchie Davis was booted off the show in 2003 for appearing on an adult-content Web site. Now she's wondering why "Idol" producers haven't applied the same standards...
MORE HARRY POTTER FODDER
LAST weekend, an unsuspecting Chicago test audience was treated to an early screening of "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" - to the unbridled envy of J.K. Rowling...
2 WEIGH STREET
IN the quest to look better in jeans, men look better in genes. That's because no matter how unfair, it's easier for men to lose weight, and what works for...
MIND OVER MATTER-NITY
YOU are getting sleepy ... sleepy ... you're pregnant! OK, maybe it doesn't work quite like that, but hypnosis is increasingly being used to treat infertility and to ease pregnancy...
'INSURE' VS. TERROR: MIKE
The federal government must continue to provide help to companies that offer terrorism insurance, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday. Testifying before a congressional field hearing at City Hall, Bloomberg said a...
WALL STREET BULLISH ON HISTORY
Wall Street turned a new page of history yesterday as a 36-block area of the Financial District, including the famous bull, was added to the federal government's National Register of...
'HEALTHY' SUPPORT
ALBANY - At war with the state's hospitals and a major health-care union over $1.2 billion in proposed budget cuts, Gov. Spitzer yesterday drew support for his plan from an...
GOV'T JOBS MAKE N.Y. A WORK FORCE
State and local governments in New York employ more workers per capita than other big states, including neighboring New Jersey and Connecticut, according to data released yesterday by the Census...
WITCH'S BROOM
Get ready for "Trashin' Week." Maid-bashin' fashion model Naomi Campbell has been assigned her five days of community service - a Monday-through-Friday stint mopping floors at a Sanitation Department warehouse...
BEAUTY QUEEN JAILED ON DRUG RAP
A busty beauty queen and fitness guru is facing a steady diet of jail grub after being accused of money laundering and drug distribution. Costa Rican stunner Sonia Barrantes Molina,...
ME STUMPED BY DOC DEATH
An autopsy on the celebrity doctor who was found burned in his Upper East Side penthouse proved inconclusive, officials said. More tissue tests need to be conducted on Dr. Denton...
'PERV' SET UP EX TO BE RAPED
A renowned hedge-fund honcho hatched a heinous revenge plot against his former mistress by posing as her on the Internet - saying she wanted to be kidnapped and raped as...
IBM GETS $80M FOR DOE JOB
The city Department of Education will fork over a whopping $80 million to IBM to design a computer database that will be the core of the agency's new letter-grade school-accountability...
BLOWING THEIR FUSE
Queens shopkeepers who lost thousands of dollars during a crippling nine-day blackout last summer blasted Con Ed yesterday for seeking a big rate hike. "The fish stinks from the head,"...
SLAY-BID RAP FOR WOMAN, 66
A 66-year-old Manhattan woman is being held on attempted-murder charges for a brutal assault and arson attack on the 84-year-old woman who lived next door to her in a Lower...
SEX-SLAVE SUPREMO IS GUILTY
A man who tortured a "sex slave" then forced her to maintain a Web site filled with depraved images of her bleeding and bruised body was convicted of sex trafficking...
'50 SHOT' COPS GRILLED BY QNS. GRAND JURY
Two of the five cops who fired 50 bullets into Sean Bell's car - killing him on his wedding day - testified yesterday before a Queens grand jury that will...
RIKERS PLOT TO 'KILL COMMISH'
A Rikers Island inmate offered to pay a hit man $165,000 to behead Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and bomb Police Headquarters in what he described as a terrorist attack, police...
ERROR IN OVA STOCK
A lesbian couple has filed a $3 million suit against a Manhattan sperm bank for allegedly losing embryos from eggs that had been harvested from one of the women to...
SUBWAY MIRACLE MAN
A Brooklyn man was lucky to be alive yesterday after he fell to the tracks, where a subway train passed over him, police said. Paul Torres, 46, was standing on...
FATAL QNS. BLAZE 'SUSPICIOUS'
A person was killed and another critically injured in a blaze that tore through a Queens home early today, fire officials said. Investigators described the blaze as "suspicious," but would...
EVICTION 'REVENGE' VS. MAFIA
If you can't settle a vendetta with blood, try real estate. Burton Kaplan, a Mafia informant in the "mob cops" case, was getting back at his one-time ally, Luchese underboss...
'MONTESSORI SEX-TEACH' VICTIM 'CROSSED' UP
A city cop who testified he was seduced at age 13 by his East Side Montessori school principal suffered a figurative beating by the same headmistress in court yesterday. Under...
APPLE IN FOR DEEP FREEZE
The city is due for temperatures 20 to 25 degrees below normal today - and snow tomorrow - in one of the last cold snaps of the winter. Temperatures today...
STUDENT STAB
A wolf pack of four boys chased and brutally beat a teen on his way to school yesterday near Union Square - where one of them, a 13-year-old, stabbed him...
OLD BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN IS THE NEW BOULEVARD OF BROKERS' DREAMS
It's a classic lesson in home economics: Brooklyn's residential real-estate market is soaring, thanks to a relatively low housing supply and the burgeoning demand to live there, a new report...
THE 'FIGHTING IRISH'
A booze-fueled brawl marred Staten Island's St. Patrick's Day Parade when 10 burly men got into a fight outside a popular bar, witnesses said. The scuffle began inside the Three...
NURSE 'SAWED UP' HER HUBBY
A highly respected nurse shot her husband in cold blood, then surgically sawed his body into pieces and stuffed them into suitcases because she was having a torrid affair with...
MIKE DISHES DIRT
The number of eateries shuttered for filthy conditions has skyrocketed this year, Mayor Bloomberg announced yesterday, while defending the city's health inspectors in the wake of the Greenwich Village restaurant...
BEST BUY NOT REALLY IN CONN.
Best Buy has staked its reputation on offering shoppers the best prices on a range of consumer electronic items, from flat screen TVs to the latest personal computers. Now the...
AD CASH EXCEEDS AID CASH
Some companies are spending way more green to promote Bono's Red project than they donate to his campaign to help fight AIDS in Africa, according to a new report. (Product)...
NBA STAR BUSTED IN 'GAL BASH'
Former St. John's hoops star Ron Artest - who was suspended from the NBA in 2004 for brawling with fans - was arrested yesterday in California after a woman called...
BUBBA WOOS BLACK CRITIC WITH SELMA JET-TOGETHER
ALBANY - Three days after blasting Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign for attacking Barack Obama, New York's highest-ranking African-American lawmaker got a surprise call from Bill Clinton and an...
DO TELL! HILL RIPS GAY-GI RULE
WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton is breaking with her husband on gays in the military, calling for the "don't ask, don't tell" policy to be replaced by show and tell....
RUDY: SHE'S NO EVIL STEPMOM
LOS ANGELES - Rudy Giuliani yesterday vigorously defended his wife, Judith, as the perfect stepmom just days after his son, Andrew, revealed he doesn't get along with her. "My wife,...
AL D'AMATO BACKS MCCAIN
Former New York Sen. Alfonse D'Amato is supporting Sen. John McCain for president over New York favorite son Rudy Giuliani, an adviser to the Arizona Republican said yesterday. Brendan Quinn,...
OBAMA DIVES INTO RIVAL'S WATER$
Sen. Barack Obama raided rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's home turf last night - ringing up cash at a fund-raiser at record exec Antonio "L.A." Reid's Manhattan home, where he...
MEGA MILLIONS' BIGGEST JACKPOT
Show me the money! Tonight's $355 million lottery jackpot is the biggest in Mega Millions' history and second only to a $365 million Powerball payout on Feb. 18, 2006. With...
DISS MADE DIDDY FLIP LIDDY: SUIT
After Sean "Diddy" Combs struck out with another man's girlfriend, he flew into a violent rage, according to a California lawsuit. Gerard Rechnitzer, a 5-foot-7 L.A. real-estate agent, claimed the...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Queens* Cops are seeking the public's assistance in catching this man, wanted for mugging a woman as she returned to her Long Island City home. The man, in his 30s,...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Mon.: 919; Lucky Sum: 19 / Midday Win-4 Mon.: 5922; Lucky Sum: 18 / Evening Nos. Mon.: 830; Lucky Sum: 11 / Evening Win-4 Mon.: 2472;...
HEALTH-CARE FAT CATS, CONT'D
They're having a "Stop the Cuts" rally on the steps of the Capitol in Albany this morning. One featured attraction will be Daniel Sisto of the Healthcare Association of New...
FRIEDEN'S FOLLIES
Chalk one up for Taco Bell's prancing rats: They've diverted Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden's attention from condoms and cooking oil long enough to get the city's restaurant inspectors back to...
GETTING IT RIGHT AT WALTER REED
"President Bush has made our administration's priority very clear to the Congress and to the country: There will be no excuses, only action. And the federal bureaucracy will not slow...
'08: THEY'RE OFF - AND AWFUL
QUESTION: Welcome to the Two-Party Presidential Primary Debate. I'm your moderator, Katie Couric. With the presidential campaign season roaring into high gear a year earlier than usual, we've convened the...
WHAT HILLARY DIDN'T DO
WHEN pressed about her qualifications for the presidency, Sen. Hillary Clinton falls back on her husband's domestic-policy record - claiming credit for the good economy, welfare reform and the balanced...
DRAGGED INTO THE RACE: AD-DRESS-ING RUDY
THE ISSUE: Whether photos of Giuliani's good-humored cross-dressing will mar his bid for prez. It's sad that some people have to deeply analyze the fact that Rudy Giuliani dressed in...
THE CHENEY THREAT
When the Democrats won the November elections, al Qaeda cheered, and when Vice President Dick Cheney went to Afghanistan, they tried to blow him up (" 'I Heard A Boom':...
WHO'S TO BLAME FOR IRAQ MESS?
THE ISSUE: The Senate Democrats' shared responsibillity for our current position in Iraq. Deroy Murdock's "Thank Your Dem Helpers, W" (PostOpinion, March 3) should be the decisive message that makes...
HOLA, MOTTOLA
In a deal designed to attract blue-chip advertisers to the fast-growing Spanish-language market, ABC Radio Networks has tapped Latin pop music star Thalia to host a weekly talk show, The...
BAD $TATIC: $12.5M PAYOLA FINE PAID
Listening to the radio might become fun again. Four of the country's largest radio station owners agreed to pay the Federal Communications Commission a combined $12.5 million to end the...
SHIRLEY, COMMERCE IS HAVING TROUBLE
IT looks like Commerce Bancorp has a real estate problem. But it has nothing to do with subprime loans. I've been following this for years: Commerce's Chairman Vernon Hill and...
HE'S NO DUMMY
New York billionaire Stephen Schwarzman may soon find himself immortalized in wax next to the likes of J.Lo and Rachel Ray. Schwarzman's Blackstone Group struck a deal yesterday to buy...
RAVELSTON PAYS $7M
Ravelston, the Toronto-based holding company once controlled by fallen newspaper baron Conrad Black, pleaded guilty yesterday to one count of fraud and agreed to pay a $7 million fine. Black,...
PREMIERE HITS CUTTING ROOM FLOOR WITH APRIL ISSUE
Hachette Filipacchi Media is shutting down the print edition of movie magazine Premiere. The Post broke the news that the magazine was on the block on Feb. 5. Yesterday, Hachette...
BURKLE BAGS $200M PROFIT ON TWO SUPERMARKET DEALS
California billionaire Ronald Burkle, fresh off a swanky dinner with Bill Clinton, Jay-Z and Bono, has netted a healthy $200 million in the past month by unloading two of his...
VOICE NAMES EDITOR
Tony Ortega was named editor-in-chief of the Village Voice, becoming the third person to fill the role in the past 15 months. Ortega had been editor of the Broward-Palm Beach...
TECHIE CAUGHT ON TAPE
Wal-Mart yesterday revealed that one of its tech employees secretly recorded conversations between its p.r. people and a New York Times reporter, a fresh black eye for the bad publicity-hounded...
GRISTEDES HEADING TO WALL ST.
Gristedes has signed a lease for 7,500 square feet in the Wall Street area, becoming the first supermarket chain to open a store in the financial district. The market will...
54TH STREET DEAL INKED
THE humongous, Boston Properties-Madison Equities assemblage on Eighth Avenue is a done deal at last - one of a trio of development sites on the avenue that could produce nearly...
HANK'S A LOT!
An independent committee of The Starr Foundation, a $3 billion charity, cleared longtime AIG chief Maurice "Hank" Greenberg and several other former key executives of any hanky-panky in setting it...
SPORTS SHORTS
GOLF: Wilson wins Honda playoffMark Wilson made a birdie to beat Jose Coceres on the third playoff hole to win the Honda Classic at PGA National yesterday in Palm Beach...
ST. AGNES, SACRAMENT REACH FINAL
St. Agnes High School advanced to the CHSAA B final last night under first-year head coach Greg Dolan with a 78-73 win over Msgr. Scanlan at Mt. St. Michael. St....
SEASON'S OVER FOR HAMILTON
After a humiliating blowout loss to Duke, St. John's coach Norm Roberts blamed the basketball gods for his team's shots not dropping. Pardon the blasphemy, but the lords of the...
HENDRA IS TAPPIN' FOR GLORY
Xavier senior Nick Hendra says he's seen the movie "This is Spinal Tap" about a good dozen times or so. Hendra's father, Tony, played the band manager in the cult...
FOUL PLAY BY REFS
WHAT ever happened to the ageless axiom that players should be allowed to determine the outcome of NBA games? Twice within 10 days, results have been decided by incorrect -...
STEROID PROBE WIDENS
ALBANY - More than a dozen additional professional athletes may have ordered illegal steroids or human-growth hormone from online companies as part of a widening multi-state investigation, The Post has...
DEVS' TOP LINE NOT IN SYNCH
PHILADELPHIA- The biggest mystery in Devildom is why the $16.5-million top line has been so mediocre this season. The reasons are myriad. They all matter. The Magic Show, EGG Line...
FORMER RAM MAY CATCH ON WITH JINTS
The entrance to Giants Stadium hasn't exactly resembled a revolving door for free agents to come and go, but the Giants last night were expecting a visit from Kevin Curtis,...
STICK 'EM UP: TANNENBAUM PULLS OFF HEIST
THE next picture you see of Mike Tannenbaum should depict the Jets' general manager wearing a ski mask over his boyish face, because he held the Bears up with a...
BEAR MARKET
For those Jets fans who were becoming increasingly antsy this offseason as the Jets seemingly idled while much of the competition around them (read: the Patriots) were making big-time improvements,...
ISIAH'S CREW CAN YANK BERTH FROM RIVER RIVALS
Eddy Curry gave a big smile when a reporter asked him about the Knicks creeping closer to playoff position thanks to two consecutive losses by the Nets. "Oh, they lost?"...
D-LEE CLOSER TO A RETURN
David Lee practiced yesterday, but the Knicks forward remained unsure if he could play tonight against Seattle. Lee has missed the last five games because of a sprained right ankle...
OSWALT NEARLY BECAME MET
PORT ST. LUCIE - Late last July, the trade collapsed, and Roy Oswalt didn't land with the Mets. Before last season's trade deadline a little more than seven months ago,...
COSMIC REY
PORT ST. LUCIE - The play was never in doubt. The combination of baseball geometry and physics assured that. Indians starter Jake Westbrook had too far to go to reach...
WILLIE: REYES LOOKS GOLDEN
PORT ST. LUCIE - Willie Randolph believes Jose Reyes' fielding is about to earn him a reward. "He's working hard with [coach] Sandy [Alomar Sr.] on his defense," the Mets...
TOUGH TIME FOR NETS' TEXAS THREE-STEP
DALLAS - Maybe it was Plato, maybe it was Bullwinkle Moose, but some brainiac type once determined, "Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'It...
'LOSER' PUTS ON SHOW FOR AGES
THERE were Rangers to the right of Rick DiPietro, Rangers to the left of DiPietro and, on at least one second-period occasion when the Islanders goalie put himself out in...
RANGERS PLAY HEAVY METTLE
They came with a single-minded purpose for 20 minutes, then another 20, then another 20, and another five after that. They drove to the net and fired pucks at Rick...
MO OF THE SAME
TAMPA - The old was better than the new yesterday at Legends Field. Thirty-seven-year-old Mariano Rivera, the MVP of the Joe Torre Era, made his initial appearance of the exhibition...
MURCER : I'LL BE BACK
TAMPA - Talking with the strong voice fans have loved for decades, Bobby Murcer vowed to be at Yankee Stadium this year to work for YES. "I plan on being...
SHEFF LEADS A-ROD CHEERS
TAMPA - Gary Sheffield hit Legends Field yesterday and predicted Alex Rodriguez will have a monster year. "I guarantee one thing: Alex is going to have the best year you...
THE PRIDE AND THE PRESSURE
One lazy day in mid-February 2006, Carl Pavano was perusing a newspaper inside the clubhouse at Legends Field in Tampa, reading the extensive coverage about Dick Cheney's hunting accident. During...
SPRING FLING
THE slew of Caribbean islands is a bit like the contestant pool on "American Idol." Eager and idealistic, they're all unique - or so they say - each claiming some...
NEW 'KITTS' ON THE BLOCK
LOOKING like a giant pumpkin out of some Grimm's fairy tale, the St. Kitts Marriott Resort is a very orange, five-floor, 477-room/96-suite hotel and casino, which dominates the baseball bat-shaped...
PANAMA PANORAMA
DON'T know about you, but when I think "stunning colonial architecture," Central America doesn't even crack the five that come to mind. And Panama? Isn't that the place with the...
SAND DOLLARS!
1) 30%OFF!-VIEQUES, P.R. WHAT?Get a very literally named Ocean View room starting from $179/night at the plantation-style Martineau Bay Resort &Spa, six miles off Puerto Rico. Ask for the "Ocean"plan...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A Mississippi guard smuggled marijuana and cash into a jail by hiding it inside mashed potatoes, police said. Leflore County Jail investigators grew suspicious of the guard because he once...
LIVEBLOG/BERLIN: Day 3 - In the drink
The weather here in Germany's been awful. Been rained on Rosenthaler Platz, caught in sleet in Schoeneberg. Not that there's any reason to complain. Plenty of places indoors to sit...