April 12, 2008
REYES MRI REVEALS STRAIN
The disabled list might not be required, but Jose Reyes didn't get a great result from the MRI exam performed on his left hamstring. The test, conducted this morning, revealed...
A WANG-PETTITTE COMPARISON
By JOEL SHERMANI have felt for a while that Chien-Ming Wang shares some traits with Andy Pettitte. Like Pettitte in his first incarnation with the Yankees, Wang is the highly...
3 DOWN: Wang, Pettitte and Alberto Gonzalez
1. I have felt for a while that Chien-Ming Wang shares some traits with Andy Pettitte. Like Pettitte in his first incarnation with the Yankees, Wang is the highly effective...
FEDS GET HANDS ON 'BANDIT' COP
A rookie NYPD cop accused of robbing $113,000 from a bank is being handed over to the feds for prosecution, officials said. The US Attorney's Office in eastern Pennsylvania is...
Walsh must consider bringing back Marbury
By MARC BERMAN"They are pretty athletic. They have the right point guard in terms of (Mike) Bibby to blend everything together. We definitely have some athletes to match them. However...
Serie A Round 33: Saturday Fixtures
By CLEMENTE LISITwo exciting matches highlighted today's Serie A schedule. While Palermo defeated Catania, Juventus was able to overcome a 10-man AC Milan in a back-and-forth thriller that all but...
BREWERS BEAT METS 5-3
The Shea Stadium love affair with Johan Santana sure didn't last long. Just 6 innings into the ace left-hander's home debut as a Met today, the faithful booed Santana after...
Santana booed as Mets lose
After wildly cheering Johan Santana before the home opener, Mets fans were booing him today -- and with good reason. Santana had just given up his third no-doubt-about-it home run...
Mets get to Sheets early
It didnât take long for the Mets to end Ben Sheetsâ impressive scoreless streak. The Milwaukee left-hander had not allowed a run in his first 15 1/3 innings this season...
Updated Red Bull salaries
By BRIAN LEWISWith the salary of offseason signing Oscar Echeverry finally leaking out _ the Red Bullsâ only significant international addition is making $80,000, by the way _ their salary...
Reyes resting hamstring
Jose Reyes underwent an MRI exam on his injured left hamstring this morning and isn't expected back until Tuesday. Reyes felt sore even before Friday's game with the Brewers, then...
Pagan takes over leadoff spot
Thanks to Jose Reyesâ hamstring injury, Angel Pagan will be in the leadoff spot for Johan Santanaâs start today against the Brewers and Ben Sheets at Shea. The Mets are...
3 UP: Wang, Ortiz and A-Rod
1. There are some similarities between the beginning of last season and the beginning of this season. In both years, the Yankees endured injuries and an unexpectedly slow start from...
2ND $OAKING EYED FOR HOME OWNERS
It's going to be a back-to-back hosing! Property owners about to be slammed with a 14.5 percent water-rate hike got another pounding yesterday when city officials disclosed they may ask...
RISING RANDI KEEPS RIPPING AWAY AT FOES
Moments after the state teachers union endorsed her candidacy for president of the American Federation of Teachers, a combative Randi Weingarten yesterday blasted Mayor Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein...
HELL ON WHEELS AT COURTHOUSE
An out-of-control car jumped the curb, plowed through crowds of stunned pedestrians and crashed into the steps of the Manhattan state Supreme Court building yesterday, injuring six people. Dozens of...
'UNDER'MINER A BX. TRAITOR
There's a traitor walking free in The Bronx. The man who tried to curse the Yankees by burying a Red Sox jersey in the Bombers' new stadium lives just a...
SIT-FOR-BRAINS FAN 'VANDALS' IN SHEA BUST
Two knucklehead Mets fans kicked apart a seat during the team's final home opener at Shea Stadium and tried to steal the broken bits as souvenirs, authorities said yesterday. Darrell...
QUINN GIVES UP THE GHOST FUNDS
Reeling from revelations that the City Council for years reserved funds in phantom accounts, Speaker Christine Quinn announced sweeping reforms yesterday in which she ceded the power for allocating more...
TEACHER'S GNAWING STUPIDITY
A boneheaded Bronx teacher got a taste of the law after she bit a student's arm yesterday. Grace Lewis, 44, who works at PS 79 on East 181st Street, was...
PHOTOG'S POPE PLANS ARE SWIPED
A copy of Pope Benedict XVI's private itinerary for his visit to New York next week was stolen last night at an East Side watering hole, law-enforcement sources said. Paul...
'HELPFUL' MANHATTAN OFFICER A SERIAL SEX FIEND: DA
Prosecutors say a Harlem community-affairs cop may be a serial sex fiend - and are asking all possible victims to please step forward. Wilfredo Rosario, a 10-year NYPD vet and,...
'KLEPTO COP' CRIME WAVE
The rookie NYPD officer caught robbing a bank in Pennsylvania may have pulled off two Manhattan heists last year to buy a car and help finance his upcoming wedding, authorities...
FOTOG'S 9/11 LIBEL SUIT NIXED
A judge has tossed a lawsuit by a photographer who claimed he was defamed when The Post revealed he had been misrepresenting himself as the fire union's "official photographer" at...
'POLO' PHONIES
A seemingly upstanding Long Island couple was busted for allegedly buying and selling millions of dollars' worth of fake luxury items bearing such designer labels as Polo and Tiffany, authorities...
BUST ENDS A DNA DOUBLE PLAY IN LI
It's a case of bad blood between brothers. A Bronx man has been indicted for burglary after Long Island cops originally fingered his twin brother because they share the same...
HOSP 'ID' EPIDEMIC
A major identity-theft ring infiltrated New York-Presbyterian Hospital's patient databases with help from a hospital employee, ripping off personal information on 40,000 people. The feds are investigating the massive scam...
W.'S CHINA TORCH SONG
Despite calls to stiff China's government, President Bush says he will attend the 2008 Olympics' opening ceremonies in Beijing this summer. "My plans haven't changed," he told ABC News yesterday....
'MONTANA' ON A BIG $$ ROLL
It pays to be 15. Miley Cyrus, the singing, dancing, songwriting sensation, earned $18.2 million last year. That means Cyrus, a k a "Hannah Montana," made more than showbiz old-timers...
AMERICAN 'ERR'LINES AT IT AGAIN
American Airlines passengers face more travel chaos today as the company cancels more flights over botched inspections and repairs to its MD-80 jets. The airline is closing in on running...
HILL TELLS BILL: CEASE FIRING & SHUT UP!
WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday told her husband to shut up, after he tried to defend her over the Bosnia "sniper" fire story and ended up making matters worse...
OBAMA 'CONDESCENDS' A MESSAGE TO 'BITTER' FOLK
Democratic front-runner Sen. Barack Obama's was accused of talking down to working-class voters yesterday after he said "bitter" folks in Pennsylvania and the Midwest "cling to guns or religion" out...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
MANHATTAN Police are searching for the two thieves pictured above who robbed a Financial District jewelry store. The unidentified men broke a glass display case at the shop at 176...
PETTY NEEDS TOP SUBWAY RUN FROM LABONTE
Petty Enterprises lost its sponsor, General Mills, for next year to Richard Childress Racing - and its top driver might not be far behind. Heading into tonight's Subway Fresh Fit...
SPORTS SHORTS
MLS: Van the man for Bulls Forty six seconds into the Red Bulls' first game of the season, Dave van den Bergh scored from 25 yards out, then added an...
FINAL PREP FOR PYRO
Pyro, winner of the Risen Star Stakes and Louisiana Derby, was favored at 4-1 in pool 2 of Churchill Downs' Kentucky Derby Future Wager, and Big Brown, fresh off his...
HONDO: O'S NO!
Hondo was headed toward another easy victory until Baltimore's brutal bullpen intervened last night in St. Pete, sabotaging a solid outing by Guthrie and slicing the earnings to 515 weavers....
PLAYERS, OWNERS REACH DEAL ON DRUG PROGRAM
Nearly four months after George Mitchell handed down a set of recommendations for Major League Baseball to change its drug program, the owners and players reached an agreement yesterday. The...
VAN THE MAN FOR RED BULLS
Talk about getting off to a quick start. Forty six seconds into the Red Bulls' first game of the season, Dave van den Bergh scored from 25 yards out, then...
GIANTS: SHOCK NOT ON BLOCK
As usual, Jeremy Shockey is not at Giants Stadium this time of year. "Pretty much protocol for the offseason for him, to be training on his own and doing his...
CIAO, ITALIA!
Stephon Marbury told The Post yesterday he has tabled Italy for a few years - this rotten season motivating him to stick in the NBA for a while longer. Marbury...
DUANER ON FAST TRACK TO BIGS
Last night Duaner Sanchez not only moved up in the minors but may have started his back-to-back challenge. After three games for St. Lucie in A-ball, Sanchez tossed a scoreless...
NO WAY, JOSE!
When it comes to everything he provides, Jose Reyes' value to the Mets is gigantic. That's why the Mets hope the shortstop's left hamstring isn't hurt too badly. Reyes was...
THAT'S A RAP!
TORONTO - Now, next season unofficially starts for the Nets. Their 2007-08 playoff dreams are finished. They have been eliminated. That is official. The Nets were living on borrowed time...
THIRD PERIOD'S A CHARM FOR BLUESHIRTS
THE third period separates the winners from the losers, the contenders from the pretenders; the champions from the also-rans. The third period in the Battle of the Hudson has belonged...
RANGERS TWO GOOD
The team that spent MegaMillions in July is finally being repaid, the one that watched some of its best walk is now trying to avoid being swept for the first...
JOBA 'BON AGAIN
BOSTON - Jonathan Papelbon is the Red Sox closer. That should be the answer the next time it is suggested Joba Chamberlain will soon be heading from late-game relief to...
PAPI'S BIG SLUMP
BOSTON - David Ortiz can have his old nickname back when he starts hitting again. For now, he's just Big Slumpi. How low can he go? Ortiz watched his average...
BEANTOWN BOZO PELTS YANK PEN
BOSTON - Joba Chamberlain and a few people seated near the Yankees' bullpen thought an unruly Red Sox fan was throwing ice cubes at the reliever while he warmed up...
STOPPED SHORT: DL STINT POSSIBLE FOR JETER
BOSTON - Every day that Derek Jeter doesn't test his injured left quad muscle moves the Yankees shortstop closer to a stint on the disabled list. Out since leaving Monday...
WANG BIG WIN FOR YANKS
BOSTON - Chien-Ming Wang annihilated two schools of thought last night at Fenway Park when he toyed with the Red Sox. Because the Red Sox have spanked Wang during his...
SCORING 'ERROR' FLAP AVOIDED
BOSTON - Chien-Ming Wang will never come this close to perfection again without actually attaining it. Or did Wang actually receive a gift scoring decision in the fourth inning last...
NEARLY PERFECT AT FENWAY
BOSTON - From the beginning, Jose Molina could see what no one else in the Fenway Park crowd of 37,624 could see, because he had the best view, squatting only...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A 22-year-old Florida man was busted for selling fake crack to nursing-home residents. Hillmon Arnold allegedly took small pieces of bread and put them in pill bottles and passed it...
BUSES, TRAINS - AND ILLEGALS
It seems the nutty idea of making it eas ier for illegal immigrants to travel un fettered didn't die with former Gov. Eliot Spitzer's drivers-licenses-for-undocumented-workers plan last year. Several immigration-rights...
. . . WHILE SETTING PERVERTS FREE
Among the judges for whom Judith Kaye is suing to win a pay hike is William Wetzel of State Supreme Court, New York County. Wetzel, a Pataki appointee, could have...
JUDGES SUE FOR RAISES . . .
For three years now, New York's chief judge, Judith Kaye, has been demand ing pay raises for all 1,300 of her robed colleagues. They haven't had a salary hike since...
DEMOCRATS VS. LIBERALISM
THESE days, Democrats aren't sounding very lib eral. Classic liberals, after all, would support free markets, internationalism and the universal desire for constitutional government, while downplaying racial affinity. But the...
OLYMPICS ANGST
'THE journey of harmony" isn't living up to its name. That's what organizers of the Olympic Games dubbed the tour of the Olympic torch before realizing that the flame would...
DO-GOOD KILLERS
LAST week, Russia's lower house of parlia ment passed a resolu tion insisting that Josef Stalin's man-made 1932-33 famine - called the Holodomor in Ukrainian - wasn't genocide. Not even...
DEMS EYEING A BLOW TO JOE
SEN. Joseph Lieberman's friends are cer tain that if Democrats expand their one- vote Senate edge in this year's elections, they will kick him out of the Senate Democratic caucus...
HE'S RUSSIAN TO MAKE ENEMIES
I am amazed at the knowledge of Ralph Peters as he writes another great article ("Caging the Bear," PostOpinion, April 3). Very few people understand Russia and the rest of...
NANCY'S 'NO' TO VETS: A SLAP TO ALL AMERICANS
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi keeps finding new ways to demonstrate that she is not a national leader ("Vets Sharing 'Ground Truth,' " Pete Hegseth, PostOpinion, April 9). Her refusal to...
GE LIGHTS OUT
Wall Street took it on the chin yesterday after conglomerate General Electric shocked the market with its first profit decline in years - and then wreaked further havoc when it...
LEHMAN'S HAND UP (OR HANDOUT?) FROM THE FED
Lehman Brothers is testing the bounds of how far the Federal Reserve will go to dislodge jammed credit markets and unwind bloated bank balance sheets. The New York-based investment bank...
WOODS DOESN'T LOOK SO GRAND
AUGUSTA, Ga. - When he strode to the first tee for his 1:52 p.m. starting time wearing his black shirt and gray slacks yesterday, Tiger Woods was already eight shots...
COUPLES' CUT STREAK CUT SHORT
AUGUSTA, Ga. - Fred Couples, who hovered precariously around the cut line for most of the day, ended up missing the cut at The Masters for the first time in...
IT'S HAPPILY TREVOR AFTER TWO ROUNDS
AUGUSTA, Ga. - South Africa is well represented at the 2008 Masters. There's Gary Player, a three-time winner, trying to shoot his age, 72, in his record 51st Masters. There's...
ART IN FLUX
IMAGINE a massive building where local artists could live and work, displaying their art to each other and the public. A place to grow creatively amid like-minded people, free from...
SOME RECENT WORKS OF THE FLUX FACTORY
January 2008 "NYNYNY" A collaborative effort of 100 artists to re-create the scale model of New York City located in the Queens Museum of Art. The massive "experiment in psychogeography"...
WHAT'S UP
TODAYIF THE SLIPPER FITS: For a non-Disney fairy-tale experience, check out The Little Orchestra Society's "Cinderella and the Prince Who Slays the Magic Dragon." Set to music by Sergei Prokofiev,...
EASY READERS
MAYBE you didn't mark your calendar, but it's Drop Everything and Read Day - a holiday made famous by Beverly Cleary's incorrigible heroine, Ramona Quimby. From 8 a.m. to 6...
MOM'S THE WORD
Forget flowers and perfume! For Mother's Day, make your mom famous - by telling the world what makes her the best. Write about her in 200 words or less, and...
DRIVEN TO DISTRACTION
Since 2003, more than 25,000 young people between 16 and 20 have been killed in car crashes, reports the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Those who've been driving less than...
TRAINING WHEELS
Toyota runs a series of courses for teens ages 15 to 18 and their parents that are not only potentially life-saving, but fun. The next one is at Belmont Park...
SEEING THROUGH A GLASS BARKLEY
GNARLS BARKLEY stopping encore "Blind Mary" rocked the house. The man and his band (including his writing partner, Danger Mouse) displayed a wild-child musical freedom that owed no debts to...
MAX TO KEEP BEAT IN LA
MAX Weinberg will def initely be making the move to Los Angeles to continue as bandleader for the new Conan O'Brien "Tonight Show." Weinberg's plans to go along with the...
PAULA NIXES 'TODAY' CONCERT
PAULA Abdul won't be performing on the "Today" show, after all. The "American Idol" judge, who hadn't performed live in years, has cancelled her April 25 live concert, part of...
SAD 'MEMORY'
LET me be honest. For once I haven't cried this much since I tripped over a broken police barricade a few years back and broke my lips. And let me...
Taking Two to The Garden
By BRETT CYRGALISIf this game doesnât get you fired up about playoff hockey, then you have cold blood running through your veins.A scoreless tie going into the third period between...
3 DOWN: Posada, Molina and Wang
1. Jorge Posada has strain in his right shoulder and is there any reason to believe that this will not be an issue all season for a guy, who you...
EPL on FSC: Round 34 Preview
Portsmouth topped West Ham in the last of the round 33 fixtures on Tuesday, winning with one goal on the trot in East London. Pompey is now four points back...
Miss Jay in(vades) Finland
We hear: Miss Jay Alexander, walking guru of America's Next Top Model, was spotted in Helsinki, Finland at the opening of the city's first Louis Vuitton boutique Friday night. We...
Washington Beats Philadelphia, Ovechkin Nets Game-Winner
Alexander Ovechkin. Anyone who isn't a fan hasn't been watching him enough. In game where it took five goals for the Capitals to win it, Ovechkin got the winning goal...
Ronaldinho out for the year...and out the door?
By BRIAN LEWISFC Barcelona announced that two-time FIFA World Player of the Year Ronaldinho out for the year with a torn muscle in his right leg. They're less forthcoming on...
