April 7, 2008
Jeter out with strained quad
Derek Jeter left tonight's Yankees-Rays game after the bottom of the second inning with a strained left quadriceps.Jeter may have injured himself beating out a possible double play in the...
Wright going on Letterman
David Wright is getting some national face-time again. The third baseman is scheduled to be a guest on ''The Late Show with David Letterman'' next Monday, April 14. Wright will...
PICK YOUR NICKNAME FOR JOBA-MO PAIRING
By JOEL SHERMAN1. OK, my nickname idea for the Joba Chamberlain and Mariano Rivera pairing is Jo-Mo as in the following:The Yanks use Jo-MoTo Gain their mojoAnd put opposing bats...
3 DOWN: Jo-Mo, Carlos Gomez, Yankee Sked
1. OK, my idea for the Joba Chamberlain and Mariano Rivera pairing is Jo-Mo as in the following:The Yanks use Jo-MoTo Gain their mojoAnd put opposing bats into slo-moScoring runs...
Scene: NYC streets
Joana Neves, from Portugal, wears a cool grey cape by Pinko, boots from Belgium and a Celyn B bag. "I'm casual chic, with details. I love details, like the fur...
'Project Runway' catwalks to Lifetime
A courtroom catwalk cat-fight broke out today when Bravo abruptly lost control of its biggest hit - "Project Runway" - which will now begin airing on rival cable network Lifetime...
'PROJECT RUNWAY' CATWALKS TO LIFETIME
A courtroom catwalk cat-fight broke out today when Bravo abruptly lost control of its biggest hit - "Project Runway" - which will now begin airing on rival cable network Lifetime...
SHEA, HEY!
The Mets will recognize the legacy of William A. Shea in a pregame, on-field ceremony prior to the final Opening Day at Shea Stadium - the Mets' home since 1964...
Recession won't hurt sports
APA sports fan faced with rising mortgage payments and a sagging stock portfolio might think twice about buying a ticket to a game.But the reality of sports business is this:...
YANKEES' BATS NEED BOOST
Whatever concerns surrounded the Yankees pitching staff entering this season were pacified by the comfort in knowing that massive run production was virtually guaranteed by the offense. Well, six games...
Movin' on up
Nicky Hilton doesn't need a reality show to find a new best friend.Hilton was spotted getting chummy with "The Hills" star Whitney Port, and LA sources say it's because their...
Two ads in Vogue Hommes International that surprised/confused me
An ad for the new Dior Homme fragrance, Fahrenheit 32. Is this a new, minimalist incarnation of the 80s and 90s bestselling scent Fahrenheit (pictured below)?.
EWING NAMED TO HALL OF FAME
Patrick Ewing, one of the greatest players in Knicks history, today was named to the Basketball Hall of Fame. Joining Ewing in the Class of 2008 is former Knicks coach...
Change of a dress
Frocks under $200? Get one for every occasion
Deal of the Day-Nine West
Supplement your umbrella routine during this rainy season by covering your crown with a cute Water Repellant Hat from Nine West.Or just pick it up if you love hats, and...
DEFENSE: SHATTERED GLASS COULD HAVE FOOLED COPS
The cops who unleashed a 50-shot barrage on Sean Bell's car could have been fooled into thinking they were being fired on because of glass from the passenger-side window flying...
OH NO, EL LOBO! (UPDATED)
By BRIAN LEWISSay this about Amado Guevara; El Lobo knows drama.The star midfielder's protracted on-again, off-again move to Toronto _ being reunited with Mo Johnston, whom he fueded with here...
PRINCESS DIANA KILLED BY RECKLESS DRIVING: CORONER
A coroner's jury ruled Monday that Princess Diana and boyfriend Dodi Fayed were unlawfully killed through the reckless actions of their driver and the paparazzi in 1997. The jury had...
Meet the parents
Ambre, Destiney and Daisy return home from Vegas totally confused because between the three of them, they don’t have a clue what Bret is looking for in a Pet Rock...
Starr Report: William, conqueror
"Boston Legal" star William Shatner says he'll host a talk show for A&E's BIO network - and that there's a good reason he likes to work. "This is a joyful...
Dewayne Robertson update (April 21)
The Philadelphia Eagles have jumped into the mix for DT Dewayne Robertson, though the Philadelphia Daily News calls a possible trade a long shot.The Delaware Journal News had reported that...
I Won't Have What She's Having
She has two flicks in post-production. Ryan's been attached to Diane English's remake of "The Women'' since the mid-1990s, playing the old Norman Shearer role opposite Eva Mendes in the...
Around the Bases: Vineyard hit hard in season debut
Nathan Vineyard, a first round supplemental draft pick by the Mets in 2007, allowed four runs on six hits over four innings as the Savannah Sand Gnats dropped a 5-0...
Cashman vs. Yankee Veterans
By JOEL SHERMANIn my column in today’s Post, I again tackle what the long-term role of Joba Chamberlain is going to be. But I think one of the interesting sidelights...
Take the PATH Train...
Click the photo to see the whole picture It's not an old jazz standard, but it's probably the easiest way to get back and forth between the Garden and the...
3 UP: Cashman vs. Yankee Vets, Joba and More Joba
1. In my column in today’s Post, I again tackle what the long-term role of Joba Chamberlain is going to be. But I think one of the interesting sidelights that...
CARTER NOT READY TO THROW IN TOWEL
Elimination is inevitable. Sort of like death and taxes. It will come, maybe Wednesday, likely by the end of the week. But like with death and taxes, the Nets are...
BROOKLYN ROSE
WHEN Marshana Ritchie, a contestant on this year's "The Bachelor," gets married someday, her close friend, Leslie Gant, will be there. Leslie would just like to meet the groom first....
STARR REPORT
William, conqueror "Boston Legal" star Wil liam Shatner says he'll host a talk show for A&E's BIO net work - and that there's a good reason he likes to work....
BE AFRAID OF 'ICARLY'
Make way - Miranda Cos grove's coming through. The 14-year-old star of Nickelodeon's hit series, "iCarly" - last seen on "Drake & Josh," playing Drake Bell's evil-genius kid sister, Megan...
WHAT, SIMON BORED?
'AMERICAN Idol's' snarky judge Simon Cowell says he's not bored by the talent show anymore - but he was earlier this year. "It's a reality show," he told The Post...
DEFIANT MIKE DOOMS CONGE$TION BID: POLS
The city's congestion-pricing proposal is effectively dead - short of a "miracle" - after Mayor Bloomberg yesterday said he was done making changes to it. Bloomberg has been pushing for...
CAR COMMUTERS HOPING FOR A DEAD END
As the city's controversial congestion-pricing plan clunks into Albany today, car-loving commuters hope it'll be a one-way trip to the junkyard. Jan Suzanne Krasner, 60, has lived in Westchester County...
'21' HITS 2ND BOX-OFFICE JACKPOT
There was more excitement off the screen than on this weekend as "21" played a hot hand at the box office for the second straight week, but George Clooney's new...
DESIGNER OPENS BOUTIQUE AT SITE OF LEGENDARY CLUB CBGB
CBGB has cleaned up its act and gotten a new infusion of style - menswear designer John Varvatos launched a shop at the old site of the rock landmark over...
INSIDE TALE OF ALBANY'S SHADOWY POLICE PAL
ALBANY - Daniel Wiese was a little-known, $50,000-a-year State Police investigator in October 1994 with strong ties to an unknown freshman senator from Peekskill, George Pataki, and an even less...
MIKE: HOW SLUSH CASH SLIPPED BY
Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday that his budgetary watchdogs did not catch wind of a secret City Council fund because no money was ever actually paid to the phony entities set...
NO YIELD OF COP SHIELD
ALBANY - A retired State Police official at the heart of the Dirty Tricks Scandal that backfired on former Gov. Eliot Spitzer is under investigation for failing to surrender his...
IT'S HER 'TERM' IN OFFICE
A leading candidate for city comptroller has carried some personal business onto the campaign trail - she's nearly eight-months pregnant and preparing to be a single mom, The Post has...
NEW MALL BENEATH LIRR STOP
An MTA printing facility beneath Long Island Rail Road tracks in Queens will soon be transformed into a brand-new shopping area. The Greater Jamaica Development Corp. has entered into a...
COLUMBIA STUDENT'S KILLER WAS 'SHOWING OFF'
The 14-year-old thug who chased a Columbia grad student to his death on a Harlem street hassled the academic to show off for buddies, police sources said. Minghui Yu, a...
BUDGET IS GOING NOWHERE
ALBANY - State budget talks remained stalled over the weekend, despite Gov. Paterson's call Friday for lawmakers to remain in town until a budget is done. "The issues that were...
BATTLE ON FOR BRUTAL BOUTS
ALBANY - Once called "barbaric" by then-Gov. George Pataki, Ultimate Fighting is getting a second look in New York. The no-holds-barred extreme fighting - or mixed martial arts that critics...
STARS ALIGN FOR THE RING'S PUNISHING PUGILISTS
For years, Ultimate Fighting has battled against the image that it is some sort of barbaric, steel-caged death match. But after a slew of rule changes, it's now a complex...
SHOOT 'TIL SAFE, COPS INSTRUCTED
The NYPD trains its officers to continue firing their weapons until a target no longer poses a threat, an expert will testify this week at the trial of three officers...
GAL WHACKS 'WAX' SPA
A Brooklyn woman who says she endured a Brazilian bikini wax from hell is suing a well-known Bay Ridge spa. Jessica Iburg needed treatment from a doctor after visiting the...
QNS. MAN STABS WIFE, DAUGHTER
A Queens man stabbed and killed his wife, and wounded his 7-year-old daughter inside their apartment last night, police said. The 34-year-old man had been fighting with his 29-year-old wife...
BURIED BY THE CRANE
A miracle survivor of the East Side crane collapse says he thought he was the victim of an earthquake as he tumbled several stories and became trapped under tons of...
BRIDE AND FUME
A Queens wedding reception came to an abrupt halt last night when the bride, the groom's mother and more than 35 other people were overcome by carbon monoxide. The gas...
LI PERV CLOSER TO FREEDOM
The Long Island man who spent 12 years in prison for molesting 9-year-old Katie Beers in 1991 but later failed to register as a sex offender could go free as...
'MONSTER'S' TURF
The Staten Island man suspected of strangling his ex-girlfriend and burying her in a remote part of New Jersey had gone camping in the heavily wooded area numerous times -...
JERSEY TEENS TAKE TOP 'BOT SPOT
A bid by Big Apple high school students to capture a prestigious robotics competition was short-circuited yesterday by their rivals from New Jersey. A total of 64 teams took part...
FEDS BARE GRIPES OF DAPPER DON'S TURNCOAT 'SON'
Even as he was ratting out his "adopted father," John Gotti, turncoat Louis Kasman was whining to the feds that the mob boss' successors weren't playing nice with him and...
FEARLESS FOTOG
Dith Pran, the diminutive photojournalist whose barbaric enslavement in Cambodia was made into the award-winning film "The Killing Fields," was remembered yesterday as a man who embodied "extreme bravery." "There...
SOLDIER'S WIDOW AND MA AT WAR
The widow of a Brooklyn-raised soldier killed in Iraq went to federal court to stop her mother-in-law from having him embalmed before his sperm could be harvested for a baby...
'SALE' ON THE WATER
One of the nation's top wholesale warehouse stores is set to anchor a massive new shopping center planned for the Brooklyn waterfront, The Post has learned. BJ's Wholesale Club has...
NUMBERS GAME
Before he was the legendary No. 5 for the Yankees, Joe DiMaggio wore No. 9. That rare Joltin' Joe rookie uniform will be auctioned at Sotheby's this month, where it...
THAT'S PRETTY 'GRATE'
Polar bears have been popping up all over Manhattan. Actually, they're plastic bags fashioned into the animals by Brooklyn artist Joshua Allen Harris, who designed them to inflate over street-level...
FIZZ WITHOUT THE FAT
Coming soon to a restaurant or liquor store near you - bubbly that won't make you tubby. The House of Ayala, a 148-year-old French winery, hopes its reduced-calorie champagne will...
TREE-HUG HUBBUB ON MCC'S TRUE NATURE
Call John McCain a tree hugger, he won't mind - especially now that it's Earth Month. McCain, a leader in the campaign to reduce global warming, could be the strongest...
HILL AIDE SAYS ADIOS
Hillary Rodham Clinton's top strategist quit her campaign yesterday after admitting his firm shouldn't have been helping the Colombian government pursue a trade agreement that the senator opposes. Mark Penn,...
RICE BIDS TO BE VP: GOPER
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has been "campaigning" to be John McCain's running mate, a former Bush administration aide said yesterday. Rice has been courting the Republican elite, Dan Senor,...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan * A 21-year-old Brooklyn man who was apparently drunk was struck and killed by a subway train yesterday, police said. Stan Pales was found face down on the tracks...
SUOZZI EYES A RE-RUN
NASSAU COUNTY Executive Thomas Suozzi, who mounted an ill-fated run for governor in 2006, has told associates he's preparing to challenge newly installed Gov. Paterson in the Democratic primary in...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sun.: 945; Lucky Sum: 18 / Midday Win-4 Sun.: 9721; Lucky Sum: 19 / Evening Nos. Sun.: 309; Lucky Sum: 12 / Evening Win-4 Sat.: 2940;...
INJUSTICE IN QUEENS
See if this passes the criminal-justice laugh test: Joseph Manzi, 32, was ready last week to plead guilty to a misdemeanor assault in Queens County Supreme Court for his violent...
A TOLL TOO FAR
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver con venes his members today to de termine whether Mayor Bloomberg's congestion-pricing plan - or at least what's left of it - will ever arrive on...
BUDGET BLUES
EVEN before it was over, this year's New York state budget process had devolved into a giant step backward for fiscal responsibility, accountability and transparency. Given Albany's already rock-bottom standards...
THE IRAQIS STEP UP
WITH Gen. David Petraeus returning to Capitol Hill tomorrow, I asked a senior Coalition officer in Baghdad late last week what key trends he sees in Iraq. I suspect my...
BARACK'S GUN-RIGHTS BLUSTER
Barack Obama, who informs campaign audiences that he taught constitutional law for 10 years, might be expected to weigh in on the historic Second Amendment case before the US Supreme...
MURDER SPIKE: NYPD'S NEEDS
IN the first three months of 2008, murders were up 25 percent in New York City com pared to the same period last year. New Yorkers hearing of the rising...
ABC'S OF CITY POLITICS: ANOTHER BAD COUNCIL
Why do politicians feel that taxpayer dollars are at their disposal for personal use ("Quinn's Phantom Funds," Editorial, April 4)? City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is just another politician abusing...
TRANSGENDER BABY BENDER
"Pregnant man" is an oxymoron ("Pregnant Man's Baby Joy," April 4). Doesn't the fact that this person is pregnant prove that the person is not a man? Will we, as...
BREAKING IT UP
A rising chorus calling for banking giant UBS AG to consider a breakup of its firm may place further pressure on its US rival Citigroup to follow suit. Late last...
YAHOO! SETS REPLY TO MICROSOFT ATTACK
Yahoo!'s board of directors was still huddled late yesterday evening plotting a response to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's three-weeks-or-else deal ultimatum. A person familiar with the situation said a statement...
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY FIRINGS AT BEAR
The debacle at Bear Stearns is not only threatening the jobs of the firm's 8,000 employees in New York, but could also put some disabled people out of work. JPMorgan...
OK TO VISIT, BUT . . .
Sure, we live in the greatest city on earth, but every now and then we wonder what's happening in other cities. To that end, a gander at namesake magazines from...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Even Evel Knievel wasn't this crazy. A Reading, Pa., man tempted fate when he hopped on the roof of his minivan as it tore down a highway at 55 mph....
WHEN THE AX FALLS
Whether it's part of a mass assault or an honor just for you, getting laid off is one of life's traumatic experiences, right up there with divorce or a death...
TAKE CARE OF BUSINESS - AND YOURSELF
Getting fired can make you feel like crap, but you may not realize how crap-tacularly awful things can get if you're unaware of the stress a layoff causes. The effect...
GO TO GREG
Q: I was recently given notice that my job is likely to be outsourced by next year. Should I start looking for a new one now, or wait and see...
RE: YOUR EX-JOB
As E-mails go, an ad for phallic enhancement would have been an improvement. "Workforce reduction notification is currently in progress," read the missive, delivered to some 400 Radio Shack employees....
THE LONG GOODBYE
Dear @work reader, There's little doubt that you - a richly rewarded professional working in the tri-state area - spend much of your day churning out e-mails like a frantic...
60 SECONDS WITH MARTIN KIHN
Martin Kihn, author of "A$$hole: How I Got Rich & Happy by Not Giving a Damn About Anyone (and How You Can Too)"You consciously decided you were going to act...
WHAT'S UP WITH THAT JOB?
What does a shoe designer do all day? Shoe designers create fashion shoes and sandals, as well as athletic and work shoes, boots and all other kinds of footwear. They...
DREAM JOB: MATTHEW BERRY
WHAT's the best time-waster for procrastinators in today's workplace - better than all the smoke breaks, Starbucks runs and flirtations with interns put together? Answer: fantasy baseball, the bane of...
CHICAGO - THE WINDY CITY
Today's page looks at the city that's home to Blues and deep-dish pizza. The land that would become Chicago was home to the Algonquin people. The name Chicago is a...
CHANGE OF A DRESS
FROCKS UNDER $200? GET ONE FOR EVERY OCCASION
PULSE SALES
STUART WEITZMAN 50 W. 57th St., between Fifth and Sixth avenues; (212) 582-9500 Sale: April 7-10. Mon.-Wed., 10 a.m.-7 p.m./Thurs., 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Eighty percent off retail on collection handbags,...
FAMILY SUFFERS PARTIAL PARALYSIS
EARLY on in the new play by Stephen Adly Guirgus, the narrator, Danny (Michael Shannon), says, "Once upon a time, there was a little girl who could roller-skate over rooftops."...
WOMEN TUTU GOOD
WOMEN, women every where - wonderful, lustrous Russian dancers, womanly women, gliding, leaping, exploding across the City Center stage. The Kirov Ballet has always excelled in its female dancers, but...
DANZAWAY SHOCKS 'EM IN 7TH
Wednesday, NYRA will begin taking wagers on Keeneland's Super High Five wager, which requires picking the first five finishers, in order, on the final race of the card. If there...
SPORTS SHORTS
AUTOS: Edwards wins in TexasCarl Edwards ran away with yesterday's NASCAR race at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth for his series-best third win of the season, holding off Jimmie...
SALUTE THE COLONEL
After Saturday's coast-to-coast trio of major Kentucky Derby preps - the Wood Memorial at Aqueduct, the Illinois Derby at Hawthorne and the Santa Anita Derby - several 3-year-olds that were...
DANTLEY HALL BOUND
Pat Riley, Patrick Ewing and Hakeem Olajuwon are out-bets to be officially announced today in San Antonio as Hall of Fame inductees. This is the first year of eligibility for...
HONDO'S RAY OF HOPE
Hondo's Anti-Tiger Investment Theory worked to perfection again last night when the Chisox motored past Detroit to goose the earnings to 580 gehringers and improve the winning streak to eight....
MASTER-FUL WIN
You never forget your first. Johnson Wagner surely will never forget yesterday, because it represented not only his first PGA Tour victory but his first invitation to play the Masters....
UCONN WIGGIN' OUT
TAMPA - The top-ranked Connecticut women fell hard last night, suffering an 82-73 NCAA semifinal loss to a Stanford team that moved the ball superbly, shot it a solid 44...
VOLS BEAT THE BUZZER
TAMPA - Five straight years, LSU has failed to get past the semifinal of the NCAA women's Final Four. And each loss has gotten exponentially more heartbreaking. Alexis Hornbuckle -...
JOGGIN' JONNY, MUM YES CREW RUN ON EMPTY
WHAT if new cars came with flat tires? Or bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwiches were made with bacon or lettuce or tomatoes, but not all three? Why don't fire alarms...
NEARLY PERFECT TIGERS EARN NOD
THIS goes beyond break ing down schedules, statistics, spread records and style points. It goes beyond forecasting hangovers, letdowns or bouncebacks. When two teams combine for 74 wins over the...
A REAL SOB STORY
SAN ANTONIO - We may as well start getting used to the sound of it. So here goes; let's try this one for size: "John Calipari, championship coach." There it...
FANTASY FINALS
SAN ANTONIO - Kansas and Memphis are so strikingly similar, so desperately hungry for a national championship, so remarkably close-knit, and the coaches so professionally connected, that tonight's NCAA tournament...
KANSAS JAYHAWKS VS. MEMPHIS TIGERS
FRONTCOURT The Tigers don't get a lot of offense out of their frontcourt, but they get tremendous defense and rebounding. Joey Dorsey's zero-point, 15-rebound performance against UCLA in the national...
EWING ENDORSES JAX TO COACH NY
Knick legend Patrick Ewing, guaranteed to be named to the Hall of Fame today, gave an endorsement for his former teammate, Mark Jackson, to coach the Knicks. If Jax is...
JOHAN CAN'T DO IT ALONE
ATLANTA - The Mets' bullpen is picking up where it left off last season, and that's not a good thing. A liability in 2007 is already looking like a liability...
SILVER LINING FROM DELGADO
ATLANTA - It is never a good thing to get swept by the Braves, even though it's only April and they aren't the mental road blocks the Mets have struggled...
HAPPY TO FINALLY BE BACK IN NY
ATLANTA - A trek through the spring made even longer by two series on the road in the opening week finally brought the Mets back to New York last night....
READY TO RUMBLE
AND so the Battle for the Hudson will open in New Jersey, just as it did two years ago. This time it will open at the Rock rather than at...
JERSEY GAINS MOMENTUM
Perception now matches fact. The broken Ranger domination of the Devils ensures the PATH Playoff truly starts 0-0, in their guts as well as on paper. The Rangers nearly swept...
MATSUI'S HR BAILS OUT BOMBERS
The Yankees' high-powered offense hasn't looked so high-powered during their first six games of the season, and yesterday, one swing from Hideki Matsui was enough to get past the Rays....
WANG-DERFUL DAY IN BRONX
Forget the antibiotics and chicken soup, there's a better recipe for curing your manager's ills. Joe Girardi felt just well enough to manage yesterday's game, but the color really returned...
NICKED-UP GIAMBI ON BENCH
The days of simply trotting out Jason Giambi as the designated hitter anytime he has a nagging physical ailment could be over. Giambi did not play yesterday as he rests...
MATTER OF JO-MO
THE Yankees have three victo ries this season, and it is impossible to ignore that in each Joba Chamberlain has handed the ball to Mariano Rivera. It is obvious early...
Nate tarnishes victory
Tarnishing tonight's where-did-this-come-from victory over Orlando was Nate Robinson’s highlight-reel dunk in the final minute with the Knicks up double-digits. Robinson proceeded to celebrate after the slam – classless -...
Wrapping up an ugly series
ATLANTA –- Notes and quotes after the Mets fell to 2-3 here today with a 3-1 loss to the Braves: -- Johan Santana, who struck out three and walked none...
RED BULLS PLAYER RATINGS
By BRIAN LEWISWith a day to digest the Red Bulls’ season-opening 2-0 win over Columbus last night _ and coach Juan Carlos Osorio’s debut _ here are some completely-subjective player...