April 19, 2008
WE NOW PRONOUNCE YOU MANNING & WIFE
April 19, 2008 | 11:51pmGuests attending the Mexican seaside wedding of Eli Manning and his college sweetheart were asked to dig deep for gifts for the newlyweds. The happy couple tying the knot tonight...
RED BULLS LINEUP VS. NEW ENGLAND
April 19, 2008 | 11:10pmThe Red Bulls are about to kick off against New England, looking to snap an eight-game winless skid against the Revs. Juan Pablo Angel is in the starting lineup, and...
Rollins comes off the bench
April 19, 2008 | 9:57pmLook who's back: Reigning NL MVP Jimmy Rollins, who was iffy to play in this series, just stepped in as a pinch-hitter for the Phillies against Duaner Sanchez with two...
Alou making minor appearances
April 19, 2008 | 8:16pmMoises Alou appears to be just days away from rejoining the Mets after the veteran left fielder appeared in his second consecutive minor-league game this morning.In an extended spring training...
Maine has a 'Friend' crush
April 19, 2008 | 7:57pmIt sure doesn't sound like the John Maine we've gotten to know, but apparently -- if you believe In Touch magazine -- the Mets' right-hander has a thing for a...
JOBA EXPECTED BACK FOR TONIGHT'S GAME
April 19, 2008 | 6:20pmBALTIMORE -- Joba Chamberlain is expected back from the bereavement list in time for tonight's game against the Orioles at Camden Yards and Jorge Posada was slated to play first...
YANKS NEED TO GET ON A RUN
April 19, 2008 | 6:05pmIt might be time for the old firecracker-in-the-bat-rack stunt. Maybe that would spark the Yankees' bats tonight when they take on the Orioles in the second of three games at...
Livorno Hampers Roma's Title Chase
April 19, 2008 | 6:03pmBy CLEMENTE LISIOne of the most intriguing aspects of European club soccer is not the battle for the title, but the struggle to avoid relegation and the fight for spots...
Lineups up for Saturday matinee
April 19, 2008 | 5:52pmDespite the Chase Utley knee that Jose Reyes took to the top of his head Friday, Reyes is in the lineup for today's 3:55 p.m. matchup here in Philadelphia between...
Not supporting Randolph
April 19, 2008 | 12:14pmFrom JOEL SHERMAN My friend David Lennon of Newsday does an excellent job of covering the Mets for Newsday. His piece on fraternization between Mets personnel and the Nationals mimics...
WHERE HAS PHIL HUGHES' STRIKEOUT PITCH GONE?
April 19, 2008 | 12:11pmFROM JOEL SHERMANFair or unfair, Phil Hughes is tied to Johan Santana. The Yanks believed so strongly in his future that they decided not to include him in a deal...
CANSECO ACCIDENTALLY HELPS A-ROD
April 19, 2008 | 12:08pmFROM JOEL SHERMANBesides the main reason -- to try to make money -- Jose Canseco appeared to "write" Vindicated, his second steroid tell all, to destroy Alex Rodriguez's reputation. It...
3 UP: A-ROD, RANDOLPH AND HUGHES
April 19, 2008 | 12:02pm1. Besides the main reason -- to try to make money -- Jose Canseco appeared to "write" Vindicated, his second steroid tell all, to destroy Alex Rodriguez's reputation. It might...
WHO'S NEXT?
April 19, 2008 | 7:31amMARK JACKSON Donnie Walsh was very specific in talking about what he wants to hear from Jackson in an interview, leading one to believe it's his job to lose. Odds:...
GOMEZ FACTOR THE DIFFERENCE
April 19, 2008 | 7:26amTHIS was the one free-agent defection that stung the Devils more than any other, the one that struck in their craws all season long, the one that prompted obvious resentment...
TIME SHARES OUT AT CONEY
April 19, 2008 | 7:07amThe Bloomberg administration's revised rezoning plan for Coney Island's seaside area keeps condos and time-share hotels out of the amusement district, city officials confirmed yesterday. The new plan also prevents...
CONGE$TION SCHEME IN THE SHOP
April 19, 2008 | 7:07amCongestion pricing could be gearing up for another run. The chairman of the commission that supported Mayor Bloomberg's push to charge drivers $8 to enter Manhattan south of 60th Street...
PA PROBERS TRASH TOWERING BLUEPRINT IDIOTS
April 19, 2008 | 7:07amThe Port Authority took it on the chin yesterday, with officials inside the agency blaming overwhelming bureaucracy for the major security lapse that allowed confidential blueprints of the planned Freedom...
CITY HAUL POLS WANT YOU TO PAY LAW BILLS
April 19, 2008 | 7:07amThe City Council is examining whether it can provide taxpayer-funded lawyers to individual legislators who might be questioned in the phantom funds mess, The Post has learned. Councilman Oliver Koppell...
FREED FOXY: I'M A POST-ER GAL
April 19, 2008 | 7:07amAfter getting out of jail yesterday, Foxy Brown said that one thing helped her survive eight months of hard time - New York's most beloved newspaper. "I read The Post...
SACRED GUEST FOR PASSOVER
April 19, 2008 | 7:07amPope Benedict XVI was welcomed at an Upper East Side synagogue last night in a historic papal visit on the eve of Passover. The visit highlighted a whirlwind day in...
HORDES FEEL BLESSED AND IMPRESSED TO SEE 'CLOSEST THING TO GOD'
April 19, 2008 | 7:07amCatholics across the city delighted in the arrival of Pope Benedict XVI yesterday - unleashing a wave of enthusiasm from his arrival at Kennedy Airport to his appearance on the...
JOHN PAUL WAS HER GODSEND
April 19, 2008 | 7:07amIt was a heaven-sent moment for 6-year-old Geralyn Smith when Pope John Paul II lifted the little girl into his arms for a ride on the popemobile during a 1979...
HOLY HAWKERS' SCHLOCK FOR THE FLOCK
April 19, 2008 | 7:07amWhen it comes to pope memorabilia, nothing's sacred. Street vendors will be hawking a pope-pourri of items - from T-shirts and buttons to kitsch like bobblehead dolls and "Pope Soap...
SAY A PRAYER FOR E. RIVER BEAVER
April 19, 2008 | 7:07amNYPD Harbor and Scuba cops patrolling the East River outside the United Nations for the pope's visit yesterday rescued an ailing beaver who was barely afloat - and might not...
HIGH SECURITY ON PAPAL TRAIL
April 19, 2008 | 7:07amPope Benedict XVI's security was so tight yesterday that even Edward Cardinal Egan needed to show ID. The head of the New York Archdiocese, decked out in full regalia, was...
BENEDICT'S SACRED SEAFOOD SPECIAL
April 19, 2008 | 7:07amGive us this night our daily bread - and fish. It was the first supper in the Big Apple for Pope Benedict XVI last night as he sat down to...
B'KLYN 'LOVE TRIANGLE' STAB-SLAY
April 19, 2008 | 7:07amA 25-year-old Staten Island man was found dead of stab wounds outside his car at a Brooklyn intersection, and cops said yesterday he may have been the victim in a...
KINKY NEWS NETWORK
April 19, 2008 | 7:07amThis is CNN? Kinky! CNN personality Richard Quest was busted in Central Park early yesterday with some drugs in his pocket, a rope around his neck that was tied to...
MANTLE KIN FANS FILMER
April 19, 2008 | 7:07amThe family of Mickey Mantle hit a home run against a filmmaker whom they accused of using a Web site for a documentary about the baseball great to score big...
KID-PERV BUST
April 19, 2008 | 7:07amA Connecticut man was arrested at a Brooklyn playground after he was caught sexually assaulting three kids, police said yesterday. Michael Martin, 61, of Stamford, was nabbed and held by...
PATSY'S ROLLS THE DICE
April 19, 2008 | 7:07amFrank Sinatra's favorite Italian eatery is branching out for the first time in its 64-year history. And it's going to open in familiar Ol' Blue Eyes territory. The owners of...
ELI CALLS HIS WEDDING SIGNALS
April 19, 2008 | 7:07amLOS CABOS, Mexico - Giants groom-to-be Eli Manning washed away the pre-game jitters yesterday with an ice cold beer as guests converged in Mexico for the Super Bowl MVP QB's...
WEDDING-BELL HELL
April 19, 2008 | 7:07amWedding guests ran for their lives yesterday as a fire ripped through a ritzy West Village townhouse. The top floor of the four-story brick building on Hudson Street between Horatio...
'BAD RAID' RAGE
April 19, 2008 | 7:07amThe NYPD has launched an internal probe after cops broke down the door of a Hasidic family's home in Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighborhood as they hunted for a suspect in...
JIHAD JOY ON JIMMY JUNKET
April 19, 2008 | 7:07amJimmy Carter stirred new outrage yesterday by meeting two exiled leaders of Hamas, who are both labeled "global terrorists" by the United States and rank high on Israel's most-wanted list....
HILL WARNS CRY BABY BARACK: 'IF YOU CAN'T STAND THE HEAT, GET OUT OF THE KITCHEN.'
April 19, 2008 | 7:07amPHILADELPHIA - Hillary Rodham Clinton mocked Barack Obama yesterday for carping about the rough treatment he received from the moderators at the presidential debate this week - and the Obama...
HARD-PLASTIC BOTTLES PULLED OVER TOXIC FEARS
April 19, 2008 | 7:07amIt may be good for the environment to drink from those reusable Nalgene water bottles, but it's what they do to the body that should concern the tree-hugging set. Nalge...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
April 19, 2008 | 7:07amBrooklynA cop on patrol got a nasty surprise when she happened upon a three-way, all-male sex romp on the sidewalk on a quiet Park Slope block, prosecutors said yesterday. According...
WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO BE A PAPA, TOO?
April 19, 2008 | 7:07amSTEVE WOLTORNIST is 18 and studying to be a priest. Fifty years ago, this statement would be too unremarkable to find its way into your newspaper. But today, some people...
LOTTERY
April 19, 2008 | 7:07amNEW YORK Midday Nos. Fri.: 780; Lucky Sum: 15 / Midday Win-4 Fri.: 3653; Lucky Sum: 17 / Evening Nos. Fri.: 071; Lucky Sum: 8 / Evening Win-4 Fri.: 1221;...
HOPKINS' FIGHT COULD GET 'UGLY'
April 19, 2008 | 7:07amLAS VEGAS - "I'll never lose to a white boy. I'll never lose to a white boy." That's how Bernard Hopkins began his psychological warfare with Joe Calzaghe. It came...
SPORTS SHORTS
April 19, 2008 | 7:07amNBA: Sonics' relocation approved NBA owners approved the SuperSonics' move to Oklahoma City for the 2008-09 season yesterday, provided the team can settle its lawsuit with the city. The Sonics...
HONDO KEEPS THE FAITH
April 19, 2008 | 7:07amHondo's unwavering faith in the Pope's teams, which was tested after Wednesday and Thursday's 1-for-3 outings, was rewarded last night when the Pontiff clicked with the Angels and Cardinals and...
FINALLY! IT'S THE END OF AN ERROR
April 19, 2008 | 7:07amIsiah Thomas lost a ton of games during four tragic years running the Knicks and now he has, finally, lost all his titles. Stripped of the presidency 2½ weeks ago,...
WALSH WAKES ORGANIZATION FROM FOUR-YEAR NIGHTMARE
April 19, 2008 | 7:07amPHILADELPHIA - Our long, national nightmare ended for good, for real, forever, at 5:07 p.m. yesterday. "Isiah," Donnie Walsh said at that precise moment, "will no longer coach the team."...
REYES OK AFTER SECOND-BASE COLLISION
April 19, 2008 | 7:07amPHILADELPHIA - Jose Reyes never saw Chase Utley's knee, but the Mets' All-Star shortstop certainly saw stars afterward. Reyes had walked in the third inning against the Phillies last night...
AMAZIN' SANTANA
April 19, 2008 | 7:07amPHILADELPHIA - After being booed last Saturday in his first home start as a Met, Johan Santana heard mostly silence here last night. Thanks to the ace left-hander's masterful performance,...
1ST PLACE IS SWEET SPOT
April 19, 2008 | 7:07amPHILADELPHIA - You see? That's all anyone was asking for a year ago. That's all anyone was looking for. If the Mets could have sprinkled one of those babies into...
BIG CHANGES FOR NETS IN OFFSEASON
April 19, 2008 | 7:07amThe Nets players spoke of what went wrong and what could go right. The Nets coach spoke of blame and failure to work as a cohesive unit. And mainly, coach...
DUST DEVILS
April 19, 2008 | 7:07amIt's not 54 years, yet. Still, the Rangers are off to bigger things and better teams. The Devils are just off. The MegaMillionaires have already come through for the Rangers,...
AVERY SHOWS 'CLASS'
April 19, 2008 | 7:07amIn the end, the Devils' skin turned out to be thinner than even their scoring. Apparently having seen enough of Sean Avery's face during Game 3's infamous, rule-changing 5-on-3, Martin...
HENRIK 'SAVED' THE DAY
April 19, 2008 | 7:07amA three-goal lead was down to one thanks to two caroms, one on a Bryce Salvador drive from outside the blueline, where perhaps John Madden should have taken his penalty...
HUGHES LOSS
April 19, 2008 | 7:07amBALTIMORE - When Brian Cashman and Hal Steinbrenner disagreed with Hank Steinbrenner about not including Phil Hughes and Ian Kennedy in a package for the Twins' Johan Santana, they understood...
CANSECO STANDS BY A-ROD/'MAX' STORY
April 19, 2008 | 7:07amJose Canseco yesterday stood by his story alleging he once introduced Alex Rodriguez to a steroid dealer he identified only as "Max" - even as "Max" came forward to say...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
April 19, 2008 | 7:07amA dog that ran off during a road-trip rest stop in Nevada apparently made its way nearly 80 miles across the high desert and two mountain ranges to return home...
FLYING HIGH
April 19, 2008 | 5:48amWANT to get your kids interested in dance? How about gymnastics? Either way, take them to "Aeros," featuring 16 members of the Romanian Gymnastics Federation in elaborately choreographed routines. The...
MATZO LUCK!
April 19, 2008 | 5:45amcONGRATULATIONS! You've survived the week before Passover, and all of the manic cleaning and massive food-shopping that comes with it. Now, if only you could deal with the simmering sense...
WEEK OF WONDER
April 19, 2008 | 5:45amTHOSE too young to go wild on a beach at spring break still need to unwind, albeit in G-rated mode. We've got the whole family covered a lot closer to...
EVERY GIRL A PRINCESS
April 19, 2008 | 5:45am'PRINCESS," ABC Family's newest movie, opens with the voice of the hero saying: "We hold these truths to be self-evident . . . babies cry, the sky is blue and...
HOW TO FIX THE KNICKS
April 19, 2008 | 5:45amNew York basketball fans' long local nightmare is over. Or is it? With Wednesday's season-ending 132-123 loss to the Indiana Pacers, the New York Knicks tied their worst record in...
INEPT AT GROUND ZERO, PT. 2
April 19, 2008 | 5:45amMeanwhile, there's further dubious news from Ground Zero. Port Authority Chairman Anthony Coscia affirmed this week that he'd received "very clear assurances" from JPMorgan Chase that the company would still...
INEPT AT GROUND ZERO, PT. 1
April 19, 2008 | 5:45amPort Authority officials were charac teristically tight-lipped about Ground Zero yesterday - for once, with reason. After all, what explanation could they possibly have after The Post's bombshell front-page disclosure...
SELF-HATING YUPPIE
April 19, 2008 | 5:45amBarack Obama is finally coming into focus. For a while now, the Obamaphiles have insisted that their candidate represents a profound break with the past. No more culture wars. No...
BENEDICT & BUSH
April 19, 2008 | 5:45amPope Benedict XVI came to America, his aides say, mainly to address the United Nations. If journalists expected Benedict to take swipes at President Bush's foreign policy there, they could...
HAGEL WAVERS OVER MCCAIN
April 19, 2008 | 5:45amFRIENDS of Sen. Chuck Hagel, the Senate's sharpest critic of President Bush's Iraq pol icy, say there is no chance he will endorse a Democrat for president this year. That...
OBAMA'S PENN. GAFFE: IT'S BITTER MEDICINE
April 19, 2008 | 5:45amCongratulations to The Post for having the courage to publish Rich Lowry's article about Sen. Barack Obama's elitist arrogance (" 'Bitter' Blunder," PostOpinion, April 15). Lowry points out that Obama's...
BIG DIG IN THE BRONX
April 19, 2008 | 5:45amDo the Yankees fear the Red Sox that much ("Hex No," April 14)? Rather than dismiss the incident as a joke, they have played right into the hands of Boston...
OFFICE DEPOT DISSIDENT ENDS PROXY FIGHT
April 19, 2008 | 5:45amRebel shareholders of Office Depot, who sought to oust the struggling chain's CEO Steve Odland, have abruptly abandoned their proxy fight just a few days before the company's annual meeting....
PANDIT'S PARING
April 19, 2008 | 5:45amVikram Pandit won a standing ovation for slapping around Citigroup in its tough-love economic rehab - sending its battered shares up to help fuel a global stock rally. The head...
Isiah new role meaningless
April 19, 2008 | 4:10amBy MARC BERMANI wouldn't get too bent out of shape that Isiah Thomas has technically remained in the organization. He doesn't even have a title.And he'll have no influence on...
Randolph: Pedro overly optimistic
April 19, 2008 | 3:49amWillie Randolph isn’t putting much stock in Pedro Martinez’s highly optimistic self-prognosis.Mets GM Omar Minaya told The Post exclusively this week that Martinez’s return from a strained left hamstring suffered...
Ex-Phillie Wagner no Philly fanatic
April 19, 2008 | 3:42amPhiladelphia's Citizens Bank Park is still off-limits to Billy Wagner’s wife and children. As nice as the Phillies’ four-year-old stadium is, even Wagner himself remains a bit unnerved about returning...
VICTORY!
April 19, 2008 | 2:50amBy BRETT CYRGALISThe final whistle blew at a very fitting time. The puck was bouncing around in front of Henrik Lundqvist, Rangers defenseman trying to clear out the swarming Devils...
Around the Bases: Ramirez recalled, Albaladejo sent down
April 19, 2008 | 12:55amAfter an up-and-down stint with the Yankees last year, Edwar Ramirez has been once again been called up from Scranton/Wilkes Barre, as the Yankees sent down Jonathan . The 27-year-old...