August 21, 2008
Game 128: Braves at Mets
August 21, 2008 | 10:27pmThe first-place Mets are going for their ninth win in the past 10 games tonight when Pedro Martinez (pictured) takes on the Braves in the final game of a three-game...
RANGERS TO RETIRE GRAVES' JERSEY FEB. 3
August 21, 2008 | 10:18pmThe Rangers announced today that the organization will retire jersey No. 9 in honor of Adam Graves prior to the Rangers-Thrashers game on Tuesday, Feb. 3. The team will retire...
KHLOE ENTERS 'APPRENTICE' BOARDROOM
August 21, 2008 | 9:03pmKhloe Kardashian has joined the ranks of "Celebrity Apprentice." NBC won't confirm anything, but Kardashian, 23, is a go for the new season, sources told The Post. Khloe stars on...
BEIJING 08: Lost in translation
August 21, 2008 | 8:37pmApparently, "technical timeout" translates as "dance around in your bikinis."-- photo by Lisa Costantini
Jets, Giants Mourn Upshaw
August 21, 2008 | 7:58pmBy PAUL SCHWARTZ AND MARK CANNIZZAROThe Giants were shocked and saddened upon hearing of the death of Gene Upshaw, the head of the NFL Players Association, who passed away at...
SI'S KING RIPS JETS FANS
August 21, 2008 | 7:57pmIf Jets fans do not pack the house for Saturday's preseason game against the Giants, they'd better expect a tongue lashing from Sports Illustrated columnist Peter King. Unless you happen...
Coke selected as EL All-Star
August 21, 2008 | 7:50pmDespite being called up to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes Barre last month, Phil Coke has been named one of the Double-A Eastern League's All-Star team for his performance with Double-A Trenton.The 26-year-old...
Giants mourn loss of Upshaw
August 21, 2008 | 7:30pmBy PAUL SCHWARTZThe Giants were shocked and saddened upon hearing of the death of Gene Upshaw, the head of the NFL Players Association, who passed away at the age of...
A Few of Najera???s Favorite Things
August 21, 2008 | 7:26pmBy FRED KERBERForget raindrops on roses and brown paper packages and stuff. Eduardo Najera has a long list of things he likes about the Nets already. Among them:He likes being...
Lassiter has impressive pro debut
August 21, 2008 | 7:25pmAlong with sixth-round pick Brett Marshall, the Gulf Coast League Yankees had another prospect making his professional debut in shortstop Garrison Lassiter. The 18-year-old High Point, N.C. native, who was...
How to get into Fashion Shows: Tip #1
August 21, 2008 | 7:21pmFor non-industry people, it's always hard to get tickets to fashion week. Begging and stealing work, but, you know, only to a certain extent. And if you're an American Express...
Jets pay tribute to Gene Upshaw
August 21, 2008 | 7:20pmThere were a few themes to today at Jets camp, the first day on a regular-season schedule with training camp having come to a close on Wednesday.There, of course was...
Kennedy knocked around for SWB
August 21, 2008 | 6:55pmIan Kennedy had his first rough start in awhile for Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes Barre yesterday, giving up four runs on seven hits in five innings yesterday, taking the loss against Rochester....
Preseason sked
August 21, 2008 | 6:51pmBy MARC BERMANKnicks announced their seven-game preseason schedule today. The opener - Danilo Gallinari vs. Andrea Bargnani - in Toronto. And there's a home-and-home with Boston.The schedule is as follows:...
Marshall has successful pro debut
August 21, 2008 | 6:50pmBrett Marshall, the Yankees sixth-round pick in the June draft, threw a scoreless inning for the Gulf Coast League Yankees in his professional debut yesterday.Marshall struck out one and walked...
PAVANO TO START SATURDAY AGAINST ORIOLES
August 21, 2008 | 6:36pmTORONTO - Counting on the American Idle. That's what this nightmare of a season has come to for the Yankees, who this afternoon informed Carl Pavano that he will be...
PBA MEMBERS GETTING A RAISE
August 21, 2008 | 6:31pmThe Patrolmen's Benevolent Association has negotiated a tentative contract deal with the Bloomberg Administration, giving its members raises equaling 17 percent over 4 years. The deal, which must still be...
HANK: MEDIA HATE THE YANKEES
August 21, 2008 | 6:20pmNow it's the media's fault. Hank Steinbrenner, who has gone out of his way to emphasize how much injuries have hurt the Yankees this season, told the new Sporting News...
'Runway' Show Far From a 'Drag'
August 21, 2008 | 6:16pmClick here for more photos from last night's showChris announces that the challenge this week will be to create outfits for ??? wait for it - drag queens. Terri loves...
Scene-NYC streets
August 21, 2008 | 6:11pmSara Huber, who works for Thakoon, wears the Thakoon For Gap shirt dress with a Devi Kroell bag and Opening Ceremony patent cut-out ballet flats.Sara says she is, "Trying to...
Scene-NYC streets
August 21, 2008 | 6:08pmShelly Zander, who models and works in film production, wears an adorable Marc by Marc Jacobs T-shirt dress with Converse sneakers, a Bing Bang necklace, and a Matt & Nat...
ON DECK: BRAVES AT METS
August 21, 2008 | 5:46pmMike Hampton was the ace the last time the Mets advanced to the World Series in 2000. Hampton left New York after one season, bolting for a big-money contract with...
ON DECK: YANKEES AT BLUE JAYS
August 21, 2008 | 5:39pmDavid Purcey, no problem. Roy Halladay, now that's another a story. If the Yankees are to build on last night's 5-1 win over Toronto tonight (7:07, YES, WCBS), they will...
THURSDAY'S OLYMPICS VIEWERS GUIDE
August 21, 2008 | 5:31pmWHAT TO WATCH TONIGHT: Although it's a night off from the insane exploits of Usain Bolt -- yesterday was his world-record run in the 200 meters, tomorrow night is his...
TODAY'S PENNANT RACE BREAKDOWN
August 21, 2008 | 5:28pmThe Red Sox and Rays are off tonight. Boston will head to Toronto to take on the Blue Jays tomorrow, and Tampa Bay goes to Chicago to take on the...
NIXON JOINS QUENTIN CRISP SEQUEL
August 21, 2008 | 4:43pmNixon has found a new running mate. Former "Sex and the City" star Cynthia Nixon will co-star in the British sequel to "The Naked Civil Servant," in which John Hurt...
Reality TV Tryouts: 'The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency'
August 21, 2008 | 3:57pmHow to get your 15 seconds of fame.Supermodel Janice Dickinson will judge a modeling competition - a "walk off" - of hundreds of model wannabes, drag queens and fans strutting...
Pitching set for Astros series
August 21, 2008 | 3:55pmA duel of aces Friday night between Johan Santana and Houston's Roy Oswalt highlights the pitching matchups in a four-game series with the resurgent Astros at Shea Stadium. Here is...
Coverage in today's Post
August 21, 2008 | 3:45pmThe first-place Amazin's are on the verge of sweeping the Braves after Mike Pelfrey (pictured) pitched just the third complete game by a Mets pitcher this season Wednesday night at...
U.S. Women Win Gold Medal
August 21, 2008 | 3:40pmAPBEIJING -- Outplayed and undermanned for most of the night, the Americans got the only shot they needed. Olympic champions, once again.Carli Lloyd scored in the sixth minute of overtime...
Can the Mets be kings of NY?
August 21, 2008 | 12:53pmFrom JOEL SHERMANIn the early editions of Thursday's Post -- in other words, one you will not be seeing online -- I suggested that a door has opened for the...
3 UP: Can the Mets Be Kings of NY?
August 21, 2008 | 12:50pm1. In the early editions of Thursday's Post -- in other words, one you will not be seeing on line -- I suggested that a door has opened for the...
'Dakota Fanning Rape Movie' Slammed with D'uh, R Rating
August 21, 2008 | 11:45amFor months, Empire Film Group has been telling exhibitors -- and proclaiming in press releases -- that it anticipated a re-edited version of the controversial Southern Gothic drama "Hounddog'' would...
Bunny Hop
August 21, 2008 | 11:11amHugh Hefner -- whose acting career stretches back at least as far as playing the manager of a Playboy Club in a 1965 episode of "Burke's Law'' -- has perhaps...
DVD Extra: 3-D is Comin' At Ya!
August 21, 2008 | 10:00amI interviewed the esteemed George Feltenstein of Warner Home Video the other day for an upcoming print piece on WHV's stupendous restoration of "How the West Was Won,'' which digitally...
A NEW GOLD STANDARD: PHELPS DOES US PROUD
August 21, 2008 | 7:54amIn the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Michael Phelps has distinguished himself as the greatest Olympian in history and made America proud ("A New Golden Age for Phelps," Aug. 19). He has...
ROOM TO GROW
August 21, 2008 | 7:54amSteve Cuozzo's latest unfair hit on Fiterman Hall will not deter CUNY from working with city and state officials to obtain sufficient funding to start the rebuilding before the irreparably...
SCHOOL JEWEL
August 21, 2008 | 7:54amOAKLAND, CALIF. SEATED at a solitary desk in the hall outside a classroom, the slender 13-year-old boy earnestly does remedial algebra, assisted by a paid tutor. She, too, is 13....
AS NATION SAYS 'DRILL,' NANCY SAYS 'STALL'
August 21, 2008 | 7:54amTHIS summer, rather than taking a family vacation, many Americans had to take on a second or third job to offset rising energy costs. Meanwhile, Congress has done . ....
BARACK'S FAVORS FOR CORRUPT CRONY
August 21, 2008 | 7:54amBarack Obama has ad mitted it was "boneheaded" to get involved in a land deal with Tony Rezko, his friend and fund-raiser. But the media's focus on that deal has...
HILLARY'S HELLIONS
August 21, 2008 | 7:54am'WELL-behaved women rarely make history": That old feminist rallying cry could be Hillary Clinton's new motto. While in Denver to officially support Barack Obama as the Democratic nominee, Sen. Clinton...
153 DEAD IN FIERY DISASTER
August 21, 2008 | 7:54amA Spanish jetliner headed to a popular European vacation spot plowed into a tree-covered ravine during takeoff and burst into hellish flames, flinging charred bodies and smoldering wreckage over a...
LOTTERY
August 21, 2008 | 7:54amNEW YORK Midday Nos. Wed.: 441; Lucky Sum: 9 / Midday Win-4 Wed.: 5031; Lucky Sum: 9 / Evening Nos. Wed: 586; Lucky Sum: 19 / Evening Win-4 Wed.: 3592;...
MCCAIN JUGGERNAUT WIPES OUT O'S LEAD IN PREZ POLLS
August 21, 2008 | 7:54amBarack Obama's lead over John McCain has collapsed, according to the latest polls, including a Wall Street Journal/NBC survey that last night showed the race in a statistical dead heat....
FLIERS GET AN AIR 'NET
August 21, 2008 | 7:54amSurfing and flying now go together on American Airlines, which yesterday launched full Internet access on many long-distance flights. Travelers heading from New York to San Francisco, Los Angeles and...
DUBYA IN IRAQ ATTACK
August 21, 2008 | 7:54amWASHINGTON - President Bush fired his most direct shot yet at Democratic nominee Barack Obama yesterday, warning against political promises to set timetables for withdrawal from Iraq. "The commander in...
OBAMA CASTS VIRGINIA REEL
August 21, 2008 | 7:54amMARTINSVILLE, Va. - Barack Obama barnstormed through southern Virginia yesterday with possible running mates, as signs point to a dramatic unveiling of his choice this weekend. Obama and his top...
FITTY PUTS UP LEGAL 'FIREWALL'
August 21, 2008 | 7:54amRapper 50 Cent is using a smokescreen of protective lawyers to stonewall the investigation of a suspicious fire that forced his ex-girlfriend and son out of his Long Island home,...
BARACK BROTHER IN SHACK SHOCK
August 21, 2008 | 7:54amBarack Obama's long-lost half-brother has surfaced in Kenya - living like a recluse on less than $1 a month and hiding his family ties. George Hussein Onyango Obama, 25, said...
HILL KIN MEETS WITH MCC AIDE
August 21, 2008 | 7:54amWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's brother Tony Rodham and a group of fellow supporters in the key state of Pennsylvania met this week with a top adviser to Sen....
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
August 21, 2008 | 7:54amManhattan This masked thief was caught on camera robbing a Hell's Kitchen bank. The bandit, wearing dark sunglasses and a bandanna over his face, passed a note to a teller...
DEADLY DELAY
August 21, 2008 | 7:54amWorkers at the former Deutsche Bank building inexplicably waited 13 minutes to report the blaze that would take the lives of firefighters Joseph Graffagnino and Robert Beddia, a new FDNY...
WAYWARD CHILD CARE SHUTTERED
August 21, 2008 | 7:54amThe Health Department has temporarily shut down four day-care centers because lax employees have allowed kids to escape, The Post has learned. The four include the Finest Care Child-Care Center...
I'D BE YOUR 'LOLLIPOP'
August 21, 2008 | 7:54amALBANY - A married upstate assemblyman got caught with his virtual pants down - busted by XXX-rated e-mails he dashed off to a 19-year-old intern in which the besotted lawmaker...
COWBOY BARES REALITY-TV GIG
August 21, 2008 | 7:54amThe Naked Cowboy's about to get even more overexposed - the busker who wears nothing more than a cowboy hat, briefs and boots is set to star in his own...
SPECIAL-ED BUSES CUT
August 21, 2008 | 7:54amThe Department of Education will run as many as 500 fewer buses serving special-education kids in the upcoming school year, the transit companies told The Post yesterday. Education officials confirmed...
JUSTICE STINKS AT BX. COURT
August 21, 2008 | 7:54amSome people were s--- out of luck when it came to doing their business yesterday at the Bronx Hall of Justice. A broken sewer line caused raw sewage to back...
RUN AFOUL OF LAW
August 21, 2008 | 7:54amA former college basketball standout went on trial yesterday for allegedly groping a woman inside trendy nightclub Lotus, but the cowardly cager didn't show up to face the music. Assistant...
ELEVATOR MONSTER ARRESTED
August 21, 2008 | 7:54amThe coward who put an 85-year-old Brooklyn grandmother in a chokehold until she collapsed in an elevator - then ripped off her cash and her cane - was under arrest...
FLYING HIGH
August 21, 2008 | 7:54amEven at age 86, Roscoe Brown, an original World War II-era Tuskegee Airman, simply won't slow down. "We had our convention last month in Philadelphia," said Brown, who was the...
TOT'S BRUTAL END
August 21, 2008 | 7:54amA 2-year-old Queens boy who once was removed from his abusive mom died as a result of homicide by "battered child syndrome," authorities said yesterday. Jashya Brown had internal and...
MORE SCHOOLS DROP OFF THE DANGER LIST
August 21, 2008 | 7:54amTwo weeks after city officials hailed a drop in violent crimes at public schools, the state echoed that message - labeling nine fewer city schools as "persistently dangerous" compared to...
GUARD 'KILLER' IN COURT
August 21, 2008 | 7:54amA crowd of seething correction officers glared at a Long Island man charged with choking their colleague to death at a Southampton bar last week, as he was arraigned on...
STOLEN POLICE VAN SMASHED
August 21, 2008 | 7:54amA young woman stole a police van from two red-faced rookies in Harlem last night - then took a joyride that ended when she smashed into a truck and a...
IS MIKE QUIXOTE TILTING AT WINDMILLS?
August 21, 2008 | 7:54amMayor Bloomberg's visionary windmill energy plan had New Yorkers flapping yesterday - with Donald Trump saying it's a great idea, but perhaps not on his towers. "It's something we should...
CON HELD IN '97 BURN SLAY
August 21, 2008 | 7:54amAn ex-con was busted yesterday and charged with the horrific 1997 murder of a Harlem woman set afire in her apartment. Daniel Santana, 30, was one of three men who...
MAYOR'S '3RD TERM' MANEUVER
August 21, 2008 | 7:54amMayor Bloomberg today for the first time left the door open to considering an extension of term limits. At a press conference, Bloomberg explained that the City Council has the...
'CRIME' TIME
August 21, 2008 | 7:54amThe Brooklyn district attorney opened an investigation yesterday into the freak death of a 5-year-old boy who toppled from a chronically malfunctioning elevator in a city-run building. DA Charles Hynes'...
'TIE' IN THE SKY
August 21, 2008 | 7:54amFormer Olympic swimming champ Mark Spitz may have gone off the deep end when he said yesterday that a race between him and Michael Phelps would end in a tie....
LATEST CUT$ A MERE NICK, DAVE WARNS
August 21, 2008 | 7:54amALBANY - Gov. Paterson warned state lawmakers yesterday that their just-approved $430 million in spending cuts will be small potatoes compared to the massive reductions needed to balance next year's...
CVS DEAL IS LOOKING MORE LIKE A 'LONGS' SHOT
August 21, 2008 | 7:54amActivist investor Bill Ackman's efforts to thwart CVS Caremark's buyout of Longs Drug Stores heated up yesterday when the target's largest shareholder joined the fight and told The Post it...
BUST OUT EARNINGS
August 21, 2008 | 7:54amSpecialty retailer Limited Brands posted quarterly earnings that blew past Wall Street's expectations as the company slashed costs amid a weak shopping environment. The Columbus, Ohio-based owner of the Victoria's...
A JUNK DEBT FUNK
August 21, 2008 | 7:54amMajor US investment banks are seeing a lot less junk in their trunks this year - and as it turns out, that's a bad thing. Underwriting volume this year for...
SIMULATED GAME
August 21, 2008 | 7:54amThe Federal Trade Commission gave its OK to a proposed combination of Electronic Arts and Take-Two Interactive without any restrictions yesterday, further clearing the way for a possible tie-up between...
T(V) & CRUMPETS
August 21, 2008 | 7:54amNBC Universal, riding high from the success of its Olympics broadcast, quietly announced a deal to acquire British independent production studio Carnival Film & Television yesterday. The purchase - the...
WALL ST. SHIFTS BLAME FOR CRISIS TO STUPID INVESTORS
August 21, 2008 | 7:54amYOUR investments could look like a pack of cigarettes if the government takes the advice of a blue-ribbon panel of experts. In a report sent recently to Treasury Secretary Hank...
SILVER'S OTHER SIN
August 21, 2008 | 7:54amNot only did Speaker Sheldon Silver and his Assembly bandits seek to sock successful New Yorkers with steep tax hikes Tuesday, they also flipped the bird to hard-pressed homeowners sorely...
GREAT DEBATES, NOT
August 21, 2008 | 7:54amOne hundred and fifty years ago today, some 10,000 people stood for more than three hours in the sweltering heat of Ottawa, Ill., as two candidates for a US Senate...
GOV EMERGES A WINNER AS HE GEARS FOR NEXT BATTLE
August 21, 2008 | 7:54amALBANY - Gov. Paterson won just two-thirds of the budget cuts he requested from the Legislature yesterday, but he gained 100 percent of the moral high ground as he prepares...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
August 21, 2008 | 7:54amWho can turn down a free dinner? A Canadian couple, who in 1993 found a balloon in their yard with a card attached offering a free dinner at a Canton,...
MEDAL MOM
August 21, 2008 | 7:08amWHO'D have predicted that one of the best-loved personalities to emerge from this year's Olympics would be a Chico's-wearing middle school principal from Baltimore? Though she just landed stateside on...
LIFE ON THE BUNNY TRAIL
August 21, 2008 | 7:08amHANGING up the bunny ears, packing up from the mansion, giving a kissy-poo goodbye to Hugh Hefner - what's life really like after being a Playmate?PHOTO GALLERY: Playmates Don't just...
SURGERY WON'T SLOW APPLEGATE
August 21, 2008 | 7:08am'SAMANTHA Who?" star Christina Applegate will continue to work on her ABC sitcom while undergoing reconstructive surgery. Applegate, 36, revealed on Tuesday's "GMA" that she had a double-mastectomy after being...
WHO IS WATCHING OLYMPICS?
August 21, 2008 | 7:08amWHO is the typical Olympics watcher - the viewer who has propelled the Beijing Games into one of the biggest TV events of the past decade? She is female, late...
ESPN PLEDGES 'LIVE' GAMES
August 21, 2008 | 7:08amIF ESPN gets the telecast rights for the 2014 and 2016 Olympics, the cable network promises to air most, if not all, the action live. "We serve sports fans," says...
HE'S NO KOTTER
August 21, 2008 | 7:08amIF you were ever called into the principal's office, just remembering it may cause you to break out in fear and loathing. And - worse - if your principal was...
MACKEY WILL NOT BE BACK-Y
August 21, 2008 | 7:08amFASTEN your seatbelts - here comes the final season of "The Shield." FX's gritty series revolving around good cop/bad cop Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis) kicks off its seventh and final...
ROCKEPHONY TV INTERVIEW
August 21, 2008 | 7:08amNBC News has scored the first sit-down interview with the phony Rockefeller who sparked an international manhunt after being accused of snatching his 7-year-old daughter Reigh "Snooks" Boss. The jailhouse...
HAUTE LIST
August 21, 2008 | 7:08amEVERYONE knows about Niketown, but what about Nike Sportswear? Tonight, the sports giant launches its first new retailing concept in years with a blowout block party that will transform Mercer...
WOMEN, SEX & OEDIPUS WRECK
August 21, 2008 | 7:08amROMANCE novels and Greek tragedies get Fringe Festival spins in "The Boy in the Basement" and "Too Much Trouble," respectively. But while these takeoffs may intrigue aficionados, neither stands on...
FAVRE NEEDS D'BRICK WALL
August 21, 2008 | 7:08amIt is every Jets fans worst nightmare. Here comes Osi Umenyiora, steaming around the corner on the left side, eager to meet Justin Tuck, rampaging around the right side, for...
PYRO HEADS TRAVERS 12
August 21, 2008 | 7:08amSARATOGA SPRINGS - With no Big Brown to scare anyone away, Saturday's 139th Travers Stakes drew a dozen second-tier 3-year-olds when post positions were drawn yesterday, the largest field for...
SHOWDOWN AT SARATOGA
August 21, 2008 | 7:08amPost handicappers John DaSilva, Ed Fountaine and defending champion Vic Cangialosi challenge former champion steeplechase jockey, OTB backstretch insider and co-publisher of the Saratoga Special, Sean Clancy, as they battle...
IT'S DYNASKI WITH A LITTLE BIT OF 'LOVE'
August 21, 2008 | 7:08amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Seven of the eight entered in today's jump race come out of races at the meet July 30 or 31. The questions are, which race was better...
PAVANO IS LIKELY TO START SATURDAY
August 21, 2008 | 7:08amTORONTO - How bad is the Yankees' season going? The clubhouse buzz last night was that Carl "American Idle" Pavano, will start Saturday night in Baltimore. Though manager Joe Girardi...
JETER & PETTITTE RIGHT YANKS' SHIP
August 21, 2008 | 7:08amTORONTO - A players-only meeting in which captain Derek Jeter was one of several speakers Tuesday was followed by a stomach-turning loss. The topic of the 10-minute chat was every...
PLAYING CATCH-UP
August 21, 2008 | 7:08amMisery in this case doesn't love company. Steve Smith should know. He spent the bulk of training camp standing and watching the Giants out at practice, and right there beside...
HONDO: THE NAT-URAL
August 21, 2008 | 7:08amThe Braves turned Flushing's Lame Duck Dump into a little chop of horrors for Hondo last night, as they were mauled by the Metamucils to cut the earnings back down...
SPORTS SHORTS
August 21, 2008 | 7:08amBASEBALL: Glavine set for surgeryTom Glavine was examined yesterday by Dr. James Andrews in Alabama. As expected, tests showed the 42-year-old pitcher has a partial tear in the flexor tendon...
LAWRENCE PICKS SJU
August 21, 2008 | 7:08amOmari Lawrence is the kind of player who in recent years would flirt with St. John's before landing at some other -more successful- Big East or ACC program. Perhaps the...
PERRY FOCUSED ON CUP PLAYOFFS
August 21, 2008 | 7:08amKenny Perry missed the PGA Championship two weeks ago because of an eye infection, but his sights are set on The Barclays and its head-turning $10 million payday. "I'm just...
MLB, UMPS OK REPLAYS
August 21, 2008 | 7:08amBaseball umpires and management signed an agreement yesterday that will allow the sport to start using instant replay to help determine calls on the field. Major League Baseball still hasn't...
GALLINARI VS. ITALIAN FOE
August 21, 2008 | 7:08amThere should be a slew of Italians on hand when the Knicks play their preseason opener Oct. 8 in Toronto - the first showdown between Italy's two stars, Danilo Gallinari...
1ST & WHOLE
August 21, 2008 | 7:08amThe crowd was buzzing, hoping. And then what they wanted to see, Mike Pelfrey, all 6-feet, 7-inches of him, emerged from the Mets dugout at the start of the ninth...
AMAZIN' YOUTH WINS NY BATTLE
August 21, 2008 | 7:08amDANIEL MURPHY came up with the bases loaded and two outs in the first inning. The Brave-Mets game was scoreless. Atlanta's fine young starter Jair Jurrjens got ahead 1-2. But...
YOUNGSTERS MAKING AMAZIN' MARK
August 21, 2008 | 7:08amManager Jerry Manuel again praised the play of the young guys platooning in left, Nick Evans and Daniel Murphy who started last night. And it just isn't Manuel who is...
ADDING REYES A RELIEF
August 21, 2008 | 7:08amMets GM Omar Minaya talked on Tuesday about the difficulty in getting a bona-fide closer through waivers, about the need to scour and sift through the flawed relievers available to...
ONE-LEGGED SWIMMER REALIZES DREAM
August 21, 2008 | 7:08amBEIXIAOYING TOWN, China -- Natalie du Toit's Olympic moment came as she sat on the dock after finishing the women's swimming marathon. She began to think about her journey and...
RUSSIAN ROULETTE: HAMMON BATTLES USA
August 21, 2008 | 7:08amBEIJING - The Olympic women's basketball matchup everyone hoped for becomes a reality today when the U.S. faces Russia in a semifinal. It's not just because a trip to the...
NO CATCHING THIS FRONT RUNNER
August 21, 2008 | 7:08amBEIJING - It was clear that the eight men running with him, and the one legend dashing alongside him, were in trouble the moment Usain Bolt came careening around the...
U.S. GALS RULE BEACH
August 21, 2008 | 7:08amBEIJING - It was the kind of morning that has broken millions of Little League hearts across the decades. The sky started spitting rain with first light, and it never...
GOLDEN CHANCE
August 21, 2008 | 7:08amBEIJING - The U.S. women's soccer team came here surrounded by questions. This was the first Olympics since the trio of Mia Hamm, Julie Foudy and Brandi Chastain retired. Abby...
THE '04 FOUR
August 21, 2008 | 7:08amBEIJING - They have all bought into the nickname "Redeem Team," into the idea that they're 12 men on a blessed basketball pilgrimage. This time it was Australia that was...
WINS ARE BOLT & BEAUTIFUL
August 21, 2008 | 7:08amBEIJING - Apparently, a Lightning Bolt can strike twice. Jamaica's Usain Bolt ran a blistering 19.30 in the 200 meters last night in Beijing, breaking Michael Johnson's 12-year-old record by...
Castillo, Church continue rehab stints
August 21, 2008 | 5:15amLuis Castillo and Ryan Church each started and played the entire game last night for Double-A Binghamton, as the Mets starting second baseman and right fielder each got closer to...
Owen wins Double-A debut
August 21, 2008 | 5:10amDylan Owen continues to impress, winning his first game with Double-A Binghamton.After going 12-6 with a 3.43 ERA in 24 starts with High-A St. Lucie, Owen threw six innings of...
Pavano looks OK after all
August 21, 2008 | 5:05amAfter yesterday's drama involving Carl Pavano's postponed bullpen session with Double-A Trenton, the oft-injured right-hander was just fine today, according to colleague George A. King III.It looks like Pavano, amazingly,...
ON THE MARKET
August 21, 2008 | 4:26amFINANCIAL DISTRICT FIVE-BEDROOM, $9,000: Unit (pictured) is 2,800 square feet with 2? baths, stainless-steel kitchen, high ceilings, washer/dryer, oak floors and keyed elevator. Agent: Daniel Hedaya, Platinum Properties, (212) 825-1050....
BELLE TERRE, LI
August 21, 2008 | 4:12amIt might not be oceanfront property, but this estate does offer indoor and outdoor saltwater swimming pools. Set on 2 professionally landscaped acres, the 13,500-square-foot stone home, just built this...
WEST VILLAGE
August 21, 2008 | 4:12amIn case you thought the hype was over regarding Richard Meier's celebrated glass building at 165 Charles St., you can get excited all over again by this 1,700-square-foot condo. With...
MINEOLA, LI
August 21, 2008 | 4:12amBedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2 Lot square feet: 3,500 -- This "exquisite" 1908 home has been "completely" redone, with results that include a new eat-in kitchen, new hardwood floors, new bathrooms...
CHELSEA
August 21, 2008 | 4:12amBedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 2 Square feet: 1,363 Common charges: $1,041 -- Ironic, isn't it, how you can now live freely and spaciously in this former chain factory on West 18th...
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS
August 21, 2008 | 4:12amBedrooms: 1 Bathrooms: 1 Square feet: 600 Maintenance: $636 -- This gut-renovated, prewar co-op on Pineapple Street - just blocks from the Brooklyn Promenade and its Manhattan views - boasts...
FORT GREENE, BROOKLYN
August 21, 2008 | 4:12amBedrooms: 1 Bathrooms: 1 Square feet: 830 Maintenance: $1,169 -- This co-op in a full-service building on Lafayette Avenue boasts "million-dollar views" (but at a 30 percent discount!). Fully renovated,...
UPPER WEST SIDE
August 21, 2008 | 4:12amThe best prewar details are those that have been meticulously restored postwar, such as what you'll find in this corner co-op on West End Avenue. The four-bedroom, three-bathroom spread (plus...
BRONXVILLE, NY
August 21, 2008 | 4:12amThanks to an "extraordinary" renovation, this "gracious" Colonial looks much as it must have when it was built in 1914 - except, of course, for all the modern conveniences and...
FLORAL PARK, LI
August 21, 2008 | 4:12amBedrooms: 4 Bathrooms: 2 Square feet: 1,820 -- This legal two-family Colonial can, of course, be used as a "spacious" one-family home - just think of the possibilities of that...
UPPER EAST SIDE
August 21, 2008 | 4:12amBedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 2 Square feet: 1,159 Common charges: $1,126 -- The views from this high-floor Third Avenue condo are "stunning" - with a direct southern look through "oversized" windows...
JUST SOLD!
August 21, 2008 | 4:00amManhattan FINANCIAL DISTRICT $2,255,000 71 Nassau St. Two-bedroom, two-bath duplex condo, 1,694 square feet, with 13-foot ceilings, white oak floors, dining room, chef's kitchen with Sub-Zero refrigerator, Bosch convection oven...
CATCH THIS!
August 21, 2008 | 4:00amMike Piazza is swapping real estate like baseball managers trade players. The 12-time All-Star catcher and former Met has reportedly already bought a $10 million house in South Beach after...
MAD MONEY
August 21, 2008 | 4:00amIn terms of the relative maturity of Manhattan residential neighborhoods, the area surrounding Madison Square Park has been something of a late bloomer. Despite its seemingly obvious residential potential -...
HOUSE PARTY
August 21, 2008 | 4:00amSummer is drawing to a close, but there's no reason outdoor entertaining has to end post-Labor Day. Whether you're the host or the guest, look for party items that will...
THREE'S COMPANY
August 21, 2008 | 4:00amAfter the age of 25, a lot of us shy away from the idea of having a roommate. Sure, when we were newly minted college graduates with no money and...
John Carver: Gabriel Cichero might've been trying to hurt Danny Dichio
August 21, 2008 | 2:18amBy BRIAN LEWISI'm actually at a Met game, and I know most of you reading this blog are probably knee-deep into the World Cup qualifier, but I just noticed this...