September 22, 2008
Maine outlook encouraging
From MARK HALE The Mets were pretty happy today with John Maine's second simulated game, and their chances of having the injured righty return before the season ends have been...
Game 156: Cubs at Mets
It's crunch time for the Mets, who open their final homestand of the regular season -- and final homestand in the history of Shea Stadium -- tonight against the Cubs...
Scene-NYC streets
Sandra Gil, a fashion publicist for Factory PR, wears a vintage dress with Free People floral-print tights, Fornarina shoes, Marc Jacobs sunglasses and a vintage bag. "I'm either black and...
Surgery to sideline Saints' Shockey
The New Orleans Times Picayune reports former Giants tight end Jeremy Shockey, now with the Saints, will have sports hernia surgery and be out 3-6 weeks.Shockey, traded in July, was...
Messier on 'Good Day'
Former Rangers captain Mark Messier will appear on "Good Day New York" Tuesday morning to discuss his work with the New York Police and Fire Widows??? and Children???s Benefit Fund."Good...
Pulse Sales-09/22
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DISAPPOINTING STADIUM CEREMONIES
FROM JOEL SHERMANI really liked the idea of permitting fans into Yankee Stadium very early on the final game day and allowing them to walk around the park and through...
3 UP: Disappointing Closing Ceremonies
I really liked the idea of permitting fans into Yankee Stadium very early on the final game day and allowing them to walk around the park and through Monument Park....
Least-watched Emmycast
Winning an Emmy ??? priceless.Winning an Emmy with no one watching? Not so good.ABC notched the least-watched Emmycast in TV history Sunday, averaging only 12.2 million viewers and recording record...
RBNY's Rojas & Cichero to miss Oct. 9 RSL game for World Cup qualifiers
By BRIAN LEWISThe Red Bulls will be without both midfielder Jorge Rojas and central defender Gabriel Cichero for their Oct. 9 game at Real Salt Lake. Both were called up...
Punter Graham back
The Jets have re-signed P Ben Graham and waived WR Marcus Henry.Graham was the Jets' punter for their first two games but was waived after a disappointing performance against New...
Deal of the Day-Loeffler Randall
This Drop Waist Dress by Loeffler Randall is a great LBD to have for the season.Layer it under a cardigan for the office and a slouchy blazer and studded strappy...
'Rock' Star Tina Racks Up Emmys
Appearances by surviving members of the cast of "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In," in cluding Lily Tomlin, and appearances by Mary Tyler Moore and Betty White, plus a special Emmy awarded...
Mets, Buffalo make it official
A press release from the Mets ...BUFFALO -- A new era of Buffalo Bisons baseball began today as the team signed a two-year player development contract with the Mets. Under...
Mets updates now on Twitter
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Coverage in today's Post
The Mets' playoff chances are teetering again after their bullpen blew its staggering 29th save of the season Sunday afternoon, leading to a 7-6 loss to the Braves. Jerry Manuel's...
BUBBA: HIL NEVER WANTED VP TICKET
Bill Clinton says wife Hillary Clinton never wanted to be vice president. But she would have agreed to run as Barack Obama's ticketmate had Obama ever asked, he said. "Not...
BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S BAILOUT BILL
LEGISLATIVE PROPOSAL FOR TREASURY AUTHORITY TO PURCHASE TROUBLED ASSETS Section 1. Short Title. This Act may be cited as ____________________. Sec. 2. Purchases of Troubled Assets. (a) Authority to Purchase.--The...
List of Emmy Winners
Here at LIVE: The TV Blog, we watch TV so you don't have to. If you missed the Emmys, click through for a complete list of last night's winners. Drama...
Backstage at the Emmys: Jeremy Piven
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING: Hosts Ryan Seacrest, Tom Bergeron, Heidi Klum, Howie Mandel, and Jeff Probst JP: I thought we were being punked as an audience. I was confused. You...
Backstage At The Emmys: Barry Sonnenfeld-'Pushing Daisies'
Q: What would your acceptance speech have been like if you hadn't written it down?Barry Sonnenfeld: Often I would get up on stage and start to talk about my penis....
Backstage at the Emmys: Zeljko Ivanek
Q: You??ve had a distinguished career on "Homicide" and "Oz" and developed such an audience, what does it mean to be up there?Zeljko Ivanek: I was just incredibly pleased for...
Backstage at the Emmys: Bryan Cranston-'Breaking Bad'
Q: You have said in the past that getting nominated is enough but this year you said "screw the nomination, I want to win"!Bryan Cranston: Yeah. When you are first...
OCD Archives: How Exactly Does a Movie Studio Decide Its Birth Date?
Speaking of studio anniversaries (see entry below), Paramount is introducing what it calls "The Centennial Collection,'' complete with large spine numbers on the DVDs, beginning in November. Which seems a...
Marking Warners' 85th Birthday
This "American Masters'' presentation includes a fascinating one-hour documentary by Cass Warner Spelling focusing on the four Warner Bros., including her gradfather Harry (who suffered a stroke after his youngest...
LIVEBLOG: New Orleans dries off
Sipping a sazerac on the porch of the Columns hotel in New Orleans not too long after Hurricane Gustav threatened to inundate the city, you could be forgiven for forgetting.Porch-side,...
Backstage at the Emmys: Ellis' Reality TV Diss
Finally, some drama!So Kirk Ellis, the Writer of "John Adams," came back and was asked what happened when he went on stage and didn't really get to give an acceptance...
Backstage at the Emmys: Tina's Wins and Losses
Tina Fey gained three Emmy Awards tonight, but lost one purse."If anyone has seen a small purple purse with an iPhone in it with a picture of a naked Toddler,...
Backstage at the Emmys: Tina Fey
30 Rock - Outstanding Comedy SeriesQ: First thoughts when you hear "President Palin"?Tina Fey: I want to be done playing this lady November 5, so if anyone can help me...
Starr Report: 'This Week'...
ABC's "This Week" set a record, of sorts, last Sunday, averaging 3.6 million viewers. That's its biggest audience in over six years (since Feb. '02) and represents the most viewers...
Inter Move Into First Place
Inter moved to the top of Serie A standings for the first time this season on Sunday following a 3-1 win at Torino, while there was some welcome relief for...
DEVILS CENTER HOPES ON ROLSTON'S RETURN
PHILADELPHIA - The Devils' latest bid to create a No. 1 center begins here tonight. In launching his second Devils go-round in their exhibition opener here, Brian Rolston returns to...
FLA. FELONS TO VOTE FOR PREZ
Thousands of Florida's convicted felons could decide who becomes the next president. New rules in the Sunshine State mean 115,000 ex-cons can now vote. Before the change, Florida had banned...
'O' HAS BAD NEWS FOR O
WASHINGTON - John McCain leads Barack Obama in Ohio, even though nearly half of those polled say they are worse off than they were four years ago, according to a...
DEMS PARTY HEARTY AMID MARKET MELTDOWN
Barack Obama had a "let them eat cake" moment, or should I say evening ("Barack: Hooray for H'wood $$," Sept. 17). The image of hard-working Wall Street taxpayers taking their...
CATTY ATTACK ON KILLED KITTY
I'm a religious New York Post reader from the Philadelphia area, and riding the train home from work today, I was laughing out loud at Andrea Peyser's column ("Slay Case...
WALL ST. DEBT KNELL
UNCLE Sam is acting not out of cool rationality but out of hot terror. In defense of the proposed $700 billion at tempt to salvage what's left of the financial-services...
TO REBUILD NY'S ECONOMY
NEW Yorkers want job security today, financial security tomorrow and opportunities for their children and grandchildren in the future. We need real solutions to to revitalize our communities, create new...
WHICH CAMPAIGN IS TELLING LIES?
THE media have accusing John McCain the GOP presidential nominee of being dishonest in his campaign ads. They're especially angry about an ad that accuses Barack Obama of supporting an...
WHAT MAIN ST. WANTS
WHEN Main Street bails out Wall Street, angry voters aren't far be hind. Any short-term euphoria from avoiding economic meltdown will soon be replaced by the harshest taxpayer hangover of...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sun.: 714; Lucky Sum: 12 / Midday Win-4 Sun.: 1431; Lucky Sum: 9 / Evening Nos. Sun.: 150; Lucky Sum: 6 / Evening Win-4 Sun.: 4668;...
TIRE-POP CLUE IN JET TRAGEDY
A blown tire may have led to the private-jet crash that killed four and critically burned former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and celebrity DJ Adam Goldstein, federal officials said yesterday....
'ROCK' STAR TINA RACKS UP EMMYS
Sarah Palin lookalike Tina Fey is TV's prime-time queen. Her New York-based NBC sitcom, "30 Rock," was named TV's Best Comedy for the second consecutive year at the Emmy Awards...
NYPD DAILY CRIME BLOTTER
Brooklyn A man was stabbed to death in Bushwick, cops said yesterday. Bernard Wannamaker, 27, was found with a stab wound to the torso on Weirfield Street near Evergreen Street...
A FINAL FIELD TRIP FOR FANS
Wistful Yankee fans yesterday took one final walk down memory lane with a rare opportunity to stroll along the hallowed playing field. The chance to tread the same ground where...
MIKE TO WELCOME W. AS WORLD DROPS IN ON UN
Mayor Bloomberg will greet President Bush this afternoon, as world leaders converge on the city for the 63rd meeting of the UN General Assembly. Discussions are to focus on Kosovo,...
KILLER ESCAPE CLAWS
It's a loophole that might just prove big enough to swing a cat through. A Manhattan jury begins deliberations today in a bizarre fatal "self-defense" cat-bludgeoning case, which at first...
$5.69 PER 'FREE' RIDE ON SI FERRY
Taxpayers shelled out a record $5.69 last year for every "free" ride on the Staten Island Ferry, as soaring fuel costs drove up the annual operating tab to $112 million,...
WALL ST. BIGS' REVOLUTION
WASHINGTON - The biggest Wall Street restructuring since the Depression continued last night as the Federal Reserve dropped another bombshell - granting a request by the country's last two stand-alone...
CHIMNEY-FALL GIRL RISES FROM ASHES
A 12-year-old girl who miraculously survived a 14-story fall down a West Village chimney said yesterday that her terrifying accident has given her a new appreciation for life. "Everything is...
LEHMAN JOB FIGHT
Memo to Lehman Brothers employees: Want to keep your job? Get in line. British bank Barclays today will start interviewing and reviewing employees of the failed Wall Street investment bank...
COPS: JEW GUYS NEED TO TALK!
he NYPD is trying to settle a long-running dispute between two rival Orthodox Jewish patrol groups - and keep them from taking the law into their own hands - by...
QUEEN OF GREEN
Ladies and gentlemen, The Bronx is blooming! Environmental activist and native daughter Majora Carter, 41, founder of the nonprofit Sustainable South Bronx, has been a leading advocate for the development...
BRINGING DOWN 'THE HOUSE'
The ghosts of Yankee Stadium's glorious past came alive last night as the emotional Bronx Bombers paid homage to The House That Ruth Built and closed the door on their...
CITY'S SPECTACULAR NEW W. SIDE STORY
Here's the first look at designs for a spectacular new boulevard and park planned for Manhattan's far West Side, where Mayor Bloomberg wants to build a new business district more...
FAITHFUL FAREWELL
Yankee fans yesterday had one last chance to visit the legendary House That Ruth Built. They shared their feelings on saying goodbye to a big part of baseball's - and...
SAMARITANS CATCH GAL LEAPING FROM QNS. FIRE
A Queens woman who jumped from her third-floor apartment yesterday as flames raged all around her survived unhurt - thanks to the quick thinking of nearly a dozen good Samaritans,...
QNS. DEMS DISS AND MAKE UP
Just before announcing a surprise endorsement of his rival, an upstart challenger in a Queens state Senate primary race accused his opponent of petition fraud and possible courthouse chicanery, court...
THEY REEL-Y LOVE NY
They all Love NY - but only one of them will win a contest that proves it. A star-studded panel will judge the work of 15 filmmakers professing their love...
MIKE SEEKS EARLY 7% PROP-TAX HIKE
Mayor Bloomberg will try to hike the city's property tax by 7 percent six months early - and even that might not be enough to fill gaping budget holes that...
RANGEL PAL'S 'BAMA JAM
In Montgomery, it seems like the only real issue that separates the Republican and Democrat vying for an empty House seat is what to do about New York Rep. Charlie...
CBS KICKS OFF RADIO STATION AUCTION
The radio market's vibrancy will be tested with today's kickoff of the auction for 50 stations owned by CBS. First-rounds bids are due today, and industry watchers, not to mention...
MARTS' STAYING POWER TO BE PUT TO THE TEST
Stocks are expected to bounce with the opening bell today, but the euphoria may be tempered as the full weight of the government's bailout hits. Market observers predict an upbeat...
CHILL FACTOR
Top music downloads 1. I Kissed a Girl, Katy Perry 2. A Millie, Lil Wayne 3. Forever, Chris Brown 4. Closer, Ne-Yo 5. Disturbia, Rihanna 6. Whatever You Like, T.I....
FEELING 'RUTH'LESS
We've doffed our cap to the "House That Ruth Built" - now it's time to check out what's ahead, not just in the new Yankees Stadium, but in the best...
KEEP A 'LEGG' UP
Having been whipsawed by a history-making credit crisis, publicly traded asset manager Legg Mason is considering a way to take itself private, The Post has learned. According to people familiar...
MOVE IS GOLDEN FOR MORGAN, GOLDMAN
The stunning decision to grant the two last surviving investment banks, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, the authority to become bank holding companies gives the firms desperately needed breathing room...
WAGING WAR ON CHARLIE
Charlie Rangel's getting right with the taxman. It's a start. But only a start. The veteran Harlem pol on Friday dispatched $10,800 to the IRS and the state tax department,...
WHO'LL FIGHT FOR KIDS?
As the candidates in next year's may oral race fire up their campaigns, a critical question moves to the fore: Who should run the city's schools? Anonymous hack politicians, the...
FAITHFUL MAKE THIS DIAMOND SPARKLE
THE place has always been about the people, about the wide eyes and the open mouths and the craned necks, about the way they commune with forever players for whom...
GOV MULLS MASS.IVE NEW CUTS
GOV. PATERSON, nervously eye ing disastrous revenue figures from Massachusetts amid the Wall Street meltdown, will decide by Friday if he'll call a special budget-cutting session of the Legislature next...
CRUCIAL SWING STATERS JUST 'SICK OF POLITICIANS'
HERE, in one of the most decisive battlegrounds of the 2008 election, voters have a very simple message for Washington politicians. Shut the hell up. And quit calling! "Whatever this...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
She served up a beer while bare. Cops in Delhi, Ill., doing a routine check at the Cabin Tavern, discovered bartender Janet Brannon, 33, serving patrons - naked. She was...
GO TO GREG
Q: I work in finance, and I see some personal opportunity in light of recent events. We're facing certain layoffs in our company, but I've always been a strong performer,...
60 SECONDS WITH MARK EMMA GILBEY KELLER
Emma Gilbey Keller, author of "The Comeback: Seven Stories of Women Who Went From Career to Family and Back Again" You may have noticed that Sarah Palin's been getting a...
MAN OF THE HOURS
When Tim Ferriss finished the manuscript for his first book and shopped it around to publishers, he was turned down by one after another. They cited a number of reasons...
TAKING AN UNEASY RIDE
For the tens of thousands of New Yorkers who report to work in the finance world, last week was no regular stint at the office. As the worst financial crisis...
DREAM JOB
For 'Tailgating Commissioner' paradise is a parking lot IF you're forever on the road, then you're always on the home team. That's the parking-lot-to-parking-lot philosophy of rambling man Joe Cahn,...
CLASSROOM EXTRA
The warm colors of autumn leaves get us ready for winter's chill. Pull up a blanket and see how. Today, we officially say good-bye to summer and hello to autumn....
THAT '80S SHOW
DID you hear the theme song start up as rubber-faced Lisa Rinna squealed into the microphone on the red carpet at the Nokia Theater last night? The Love BoataExciting and...
STARR REPORT
ABC's "This Week" set a record, of sorts, last Sunday, averaging 3.6 million viewers. That's its biggest audience in over six years (since Feb. '02) and repre sents the most...
FIST HEADED
EVERY man's fantasy meets "Meet The Parents" in CBS' dopey new sitcom "Worst Week," one of the worst new shows of the week. OK, I couldn't help myself with that...
'RUNWAY' FINDS ITS VILLAIN
ATTENTION Kmart shoppers! Blue Light Special, Aisle 2: Entitlement. Fans of "Project Runway" are buzzing this week about Kenley Collins, whose mockery of her fellow designers and intolerance of honest...
HAPPY HD HOLIDAY
THANKS to the rough economy, predictions are that high-definition DVD players are going to be selling for as little as $149 by Black Friday - and plasma TVs for $499....
RANTING BRONX JUDGE'S TV DEAL
DOES it seem to you that there are more judge shows right now than Starbucks? The newest is set to star tart-tongued Bronx family-court judge Marian Shelton, who agreed to...
TRIVIAL PURSUITS
YOU would think a group of people la beled "heroes" would do something heroic once in a while. But in tonight's premiere of the third season of NBC's "Heroes," the...
PULSE SALES
HERMES 125 W. 18th St., between Sixth and Seventh avenues; 212-463-0071 Sale: Sept. 24-28. Wed., 10 a.m.-6 p.m./Thurs., 10 a.m.-8 p.m./Fri.-Sat., 10 a.m.-6 p.m./Sun., 1 p.m.-6 p.m. Find the famed...
FALLING FOR FLUID FEET
WHAT began, five years ago, as an experiment in dance programming has since become a New York institution: the Fall for Dance Festival, a richly varied grab-bag sampler of world...
TAKEN BY STORM
MANDY Patinkin's performance in "The Tempest" is absolutely melodic - and not only when he bursts into song. As the sorcerer Prospero, he delivers Shakespeare's poetry with lilting vocal cadences...
B'WAY MOCKERY COMES ATTIRED IN SATIRE
WHAT will we do with out "Forbidden Broadway"? For some 27 years, its mockery of the Great White Way has been the theatrical equivalent of a weeklong spa stay for...
JETS CHARGED UP FOR SAN DIEGO
The Jets enter tonight's game against the Chargers with fond recent memories of playing at Qualcomm Stadium, having won their last three games there. But tonight, with the Chargers 0-2...
JETER PAYS POSTGAME TRIBUTE TO 'GREATEST FANS'
It began to hit Derek Jeter on the drive in from Manhattan yesterday. He was on his way to the 1,005th - and final - game he would play at...
CELEBRATING & MOURNING AT ONCE
THEY held a funeral and a celebration broke out. Or was it that they scheduled a celebration and a funeral was held? No organization is tied to history the way...
HAL GETS EMOTIONAL OVER END
Hal Steinbrenner admitted that last night's final game at Yankee Stadium was tough for him to see - even with a new ballpark set to open next year. "It's mixed...
ANDY GETS HISTORIC VICTORY
If this was Andy Pettitte's final start in New York, the Yankees fans gave him a sendoff he will remember. When Joe Girardi pulled him from the game in the...
MO, PETTITTE GIVE STADIUM WINNING SENDOFF
The House That Mo Closed officially belongs to the history books. In the only acceptable conclusion for the ghosts of Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio and Mantle, the Yankees said farewell to...
BELOVED BERNIE HEARS CHEERS
Bernie Williams waved his hands to the crowd and tipped his cap. The fans chanted "Ber-nie Will-iams" and the ovation lasted about two minutes. Williams played at Yankee Stadium 16...
YANKEES BID FAREWELL WITH VICTORY
From The Babe, who built it, to The Boss, who rebuilt it, Yankee Stadium was the mecca of ballparks. Opened in 1923, the Stadium closed its hallowed doors last night...
RIVERA CLOSES OL' PARK IN STYLE
MARIANO Rivera stood on the mound and looked down into his glove. He had gotten the final three outs in Yankee Stadium history. Once again he had done his ninth-inning...
PIERCE COMMITS HEADS-UP PENALTY
When is a penalty a smart play? When it prevents a possibly big play on your defense. showvideo("PostSports","1458_384060"); It happened for the Giants early in the fourth quarter of their...
LATE-GAME HEROICS NOW ROUTINE FOR ELI
IT doesn't have to be the Super Bowl anymore for Eli Manning. It doesn't have to be the Patriots. It can be Week 3 of the regular season against the...
VETERAN PROVIDES EXTRA KICK
Whatever the Giants expected of John Carney when they signed him three weeks ago, whatever their most wildly optimistic hope for the emergency replacement kicker, Carney has far exceeded it....
CARNEY'S 22-YARD FG LEADS TO OT VICTORY
The game was devolving from annoying to difficult, and the reality was looming large that yesterday's tough little struggle was not going to end well for the Giants. Giants Game...
HONDO BEARING DOWN
Looper proved to be much less than super yester day, which was costly to both the Cards and Hondo as the earnings dropped to 620 pipps. Tonight, in the Marquis...
SPORTS SHORTS
NASCAR: Biffle wins againGreg Biffle made it 2-for-2 in the Chase for the championship, holding off Matt Kenseth and Carl Edwards yesterday at Dover (Del.) International Speedway. Biffle, the winner...
SHANNY GETS 'BERNIE' TREATMENT
In 2007, the Yankees invited free agent Bernie Williams to spring training as a non-roster player. Hoping for a guaranteed contract, the centerfielder who only wanted to continue his career...
GREED OVERTAKES COMMON DECENCY
THAT the New York sports and news media would quietly allow the last game in Yankee Stadium to be a late start on a Sunday night, that Bud Selig was...
AMAZIN'S MUST BREW UP VICTORIES
ATLANTA - The Brew ers could still save the Mets. So, with seven games to go, might the fickle finger of fate, or Johan Santana, or the same top-and-middle-of-the-order batters...
RELIEVERS BLOW 29TH SAVE OF SEASON
ATLANTA - The Mets' pig of a 'pen struck again. Reliever Scott Schoeneweis did a lot better job summing things up than he did pitching yesterday after the bullpen turned...
U.S. ENDS EUROPE'S HOLD ON CUP
LOUISVILLE - It had been nine years that felt for some of the American players like forever. The U.S. Ryder Cup team not only hadn't won the cherished 17-inch-tall chalice...
SUN SHINES BRIGHT ON KY. HEROES
LOUISVILLE - Kentucky's favorite sons - Kenny Perry and J.B. Holmes - delivered for the U.S. Ryder Cup team yesterday. They delivered big time. Perry, from nearby Franklin, had centered...
NEW BLOOD PUMPS LIFE INTO U.S. GOLF
LOUISVILLE - Welcome to the new faces of American golf. Finally there is more than just Tiger Woods. Anthony Kim, Hunter Mahan, Boo Weekley and J.B. Holmes: remember those names;...
MARIANO CLOSES OUT YANKEE STADIUM
The House That Mo Closed officially belongs to the history books. In the only acceptable conclusion for the ghosts of Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio and Mantle, the Yankees said farewell to...
Pitching set for Cubs series
Fresh from dropping the final two games in Atlanta to fall 1 1/2 games behind the Phillies in the NL East, the Mets have set their pitching rotation for a...
BACKSTAGE AT THE EMMYS: JEREMY PIVEN
Q: What does it feel like to win this one? This third one was more shocking than the first two. I do believe the show is getting better. That is...
2008 EMMY AWARDS
Sarah Palin lookalike Tina Fey is TV's prime-time queen. Her New York-based NBC sitcom, "30 Rock," was named TV's Best Comedy for the second consecutive year at the Emmy Awards...