April 23, 2008
Lineups and more for Nats opener
Greetings from a gleaming Nationals Park, where the Capitol building sits picturesquely beyond left field. Weâve already given you the Carlos Delgado news, so now comes the rest of the...
Literally: Look who's got a fashion-book deal
Mary Kate and Ashley have "Influence"
3 DOWN: Joba, Hansen and the Tigers
1. Tuesday night's Yankee game in Chicago, in many ways, was Exhibit A for those who do not want to see Joba Chamberlain moved from the bullpen to the rotation....
Delgado dropped in the lineup
Talk about long overdue: Carlos Delgado has been dropped one spot in the order to sixth starting tonight. The veteran first baseman has been mired in a slump all season...
United Pays the Penalty Against Barcelona
By CLEMENTE LISIBarcelona and Manchester United played to a scoreless tie today in their first-leg Champions League semifinal clash.Alex Fergusonâs team had the opportunity to get off to a perfect...
Speed Bump for 'Racer'?
My favorite box-office prognosticator, Steve Mason has been poring over early tracking figures for May and writesthat "Speed Racer,'' the pricy Wachowski Brothers blockbuster opening on May 9 "is on...
SATC Sets London Bow
I've confirmed that "Sex and the City'' will be skipping Cannes and its Manolo-shod stars will have their glittering world premiere in London, to be followed by Berlin and New...
COPS: TEEN DRESSED GRANDMA AS GANGSTER FOR ROBBERY
LAKE WORTH, Fla. -- A Florida teenager faces a charge of elder abuse alleging he made his senile grandmother wear a black mask and hold a handgun for a video...
'Ugly' Naomi
ABC, please remove all cell phones from the set: Naomi Campbell is coming to Tinseltown.The supermodel is set to appear in the second season finale of "Ugly Betty," according to...
HOPE FOR FINDING BRAZILIAN PRIEST DEFLATES
SAO PAULO, Brazil -- Hopes for finding a priest who disappeared after soaring into the air with hundreds of colorful balloons are growing slimmer, rescue officials said today. Roman Catholic...
BOYENS & IMHOFF IN RED BULL CAMP
By BRIAN LEWISJuan Carlos Osorio is continuing his quest to beef up the Red Bullsâ defense. Andrew Boyens has played well in both Sundayâs reserve game and in practice, 25-year-old...
STAR JONES, AL REYNOLDS FILE FOR DIVORCE
NEW YORK -- Three years after tying the knot in a spectacular, over-the-top affair that caused some backlash, Star Jones has decided to end her marriage to banker Al Reynolds....
She Said: Hayden Panettiere
"Do I have time to be a normal teenager? Absolutely. Am I a normal teenager? Absolutely not.""Heroes" star Hayden Panettiere, 18.
SCHNEIDER RETURNS TO SLUMPING METS
By BRETT CYRGALIS It's easy to over dramatize the Mets' recent three-game losing streak. They're not hitting, their bullpen has been shaky, their fielding atrocious. But it's only April, and...
Bad deal
President Bush's unpopularity stretches from low-approval ratings to booing baseball fans, and now to one of NBC's lone hits, "Deal or No Deal." "I'm thrilled to be on 'Deal or...
RANGERS' AVERY TO INTERN AT VOGUE MAGAZINE
When the season ends, Ranger enforcer Sean Avery will be trading in his Blueshirt for couture shirts. Avery, who helped the Rangers get into the second round of the playoffs,...
JUAN PABLO'S (NOT) BACK & RED BULL INJURIES
By BRIAN LEWISJust as the Red Bulls are slowly edging their way toward health _ Claudio Reynaâs injury apparently not serious, and Dane Richards and Hunter Freeman practicing for a...
OAKLEY: FORGET JAX, KNICKS NEED FRESH HERB
In Charles Oakley's mind, the next Knicks coach shouldn't necessarily be Mark Jackson. Oak's nominees? Herb Williams or Patrick Ewing. Last night at a screening for Oakley's cooking television show...
Mighter than the Pens?
By BRETT CYRGALISSo I think youâd be hard pressed to find anyone outside of Pennsylvania that was rooting for the Flyers to knock off wunderkind Alexander Ovechkin and the Capitals...
MINUS A-ROD, YANKS LOOK TO ABREU
In many lineups, the No. 3 hitter is the man opposing teams least want to see at the plate. And in those lineups, Bobby Abreu would be the scariest proposition...
Woody's Latest Surrogate?
Here's a shot of 60-year-old Larry David and 20-year-old Evan Rachel Wood shooting a new, untitled Woody Allen movie on the Lower East Side yesterday, courtesy of Karina Longworth's invaluable...
The Broadway music of the night
Andrew Lloyd Webber Typically, calling a performance "cabaret" or "Broadway" is a back-handed compliment at best on "American Idol."But with the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, big and overly dramatic...
Starr Report: A royal announcement
Jonathan Rhys Meyers Speaking of royalty, ABC Family's original movie, "Princess," finished first in total cable vieers (3 million) in its timeslot last Saturday (8-10 p.m.) and was the week's...
COMING UP: New Orleans!
Jazz Fest starts Friday! (Are you going? Some pretty reasonable rates left for this weekend.) Our Mary Huhn will be in attendance, but I don't know if she'll get time...
Case for futility
We get "CSI": People like to play detective and solve crimes â it makes them feel smart. We even get "ER": Doctors saving lives makes the drama seem so important....
Clint, Angelina, Soderbergh, Del Toro, Woody, Scarlett, Penelope and Harrison to Walk the Cannes Red Carpet; SJP's "Sex'' Up in the Air
Clint Eastwood's "The Changling,'' starring Angelina Jolie as the mother of a missing child during the Great Depression will make its world premiere be in competition at the Cannes Film...
LIVEBLOG: Chilean sunsets
Could we have a moment of silence in appreciation for this ridiculously photogenic sunset, please? I only ask because, if you're like me, you've seen some amazing sunsets around the...
Tribeca Returns
The Rodney Dangerfield of film festivals (the headline on the Toronto Globe and Mail's preview is "First-Class City, Second-Rate Film Festival'') launches its seventh season today with the disappointing Tina...
3 UP: Giambi/Delgado, Zito and Rasner
1. Barry Bonds remains jobless and Frank Thomas â for all intents and purposes â was fired by the Blue Jays (it has not been a good time for folks...
PBA AIDING CITIES THAT POACH COPS
The city's police union is looking for few good cops - to leave the NYPD. In a move that further strains relations between the PBA and Mayor Bloomberg, the union...
BLDGS. BOSS BOOTED
Commissioner Patricia Lancaster was pushed out the door at the Department of Buildings yesterday, a day after Mayor Bloomberg ripped her agency for an embarrassing series of screw-ups. "It has...
CRANE VICTIM'S KIN SUE
The estate of a Florida woman killed in last month's crane collapse has filed suit. In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, the estate of Odin Torres, 28, blames her...
100 GROUPS FEELING $12M 'SLUSH' CHILL
Grants slated for 100 community groups - amounting to more than $12 million - have been frozen because of the intensifying probe into the City Council's phantom-funds mess, Comptroller William...
SENIORS' APT. OWE WOE
A decaying senior-citizen housing complex originally sponsored by two of the most powerful lawmakers in the South Bronx has been threatened with a shutoff of its power because of an...
JUDGE NIXES RAMONE SUIT
A former member of The Ramones got drummed out of federal court as a judge pulled the plug on his $900,000 lawsuit over rights to songs he allegedly wrote for...
A-ROD IS A-DAD FOR 2ND TIME
A "thrilled" Alex Rodriguez rushed to a Miami hospital just in time for the birth of his second daughter. The Yankee slugger and his wife, Cynthia, 34, welcomed the 7-pound,...
CHRISTIE CAN BREATHE FREE
A federal appeals court let former EPA chief Christie Todd Whitman off the hook yesterday for downplaying the toxic dangers near Ground Zero following the 2001 terrorist attacks and speeding...
'BERNIE' JOURNEY KOOKS GO FREE
Dead men tell no tales - but they can try to sign checks. A Manhattan judge yesterday dismissed criminal charges against the pair of palookas who were accused of wheeling...
MOTORCYCLE THIEVES SLAY LAWMAN
Two reputed Crips gangbangers were being questioned last night in the slaying of a correction officer who was shot dead at his Brooklyn home while trying to stop punks from...
JUDGE SKIPS JAIL
A former judge, accused of looting his elderly aunt's assets, copped a plea yesterday to a misdemeanor. Michael Garson, 63, yesterday admitted possessing a forged document in a no-jail plea...
JUDGE ORDERS TIMEOUT IN UNION SQ. RESTAURANT RUMBLE
A city judge has dished up a temporary stop-work order against the $20 million Union Square Park renovation project, allowing preservationists to argue that a planned seasonal eatery will take...
STUDENT CELL BAN IS UPHELD
The Department of Education has the right to ban cellphones from public schools, a Manhattan appellate court ruled yesterday. Affirming a 2007 lower-court ruling, the five-judge panel dismissed parents' claims...
LI FUGITIVE ROUNDUP NAILS 100
More than 100 Long Island fugitives were rounded up during a massive police sweep, authorities said yesterday. The interagency raids - which began about two weeks ago - netted 115...
GUINNESS STRIKE THREAT BREWING
It's thick, black and fuels much of the city. No, it's not crude oil, it's Guinness beer - and a possible strike by the workers at the Irish plant that...
NY'S SEE-PORT
Elvis nearly blew the audition by neglecting to plug in his iPod. Decked out in a golden jumpsuit and matching sneakers, the King - as portrayed by 65-year-old retired attorney...
FEDERAL BELL TRIAL UNLIKELY
If the three undercover cops accused of shooting Sean Bell in a hail of 50 bullets are acquitted, federal prosecutors are not expected to go after the detectives, sources said...
$3M 'BILK' ON THE ROCKS
A Brooklyn man was put on ice yesterday after his fellow Diamond District dealers accused him of swindling them out of more $3 million worth of precious stones. Alfred "Avi"...
SI 'NINJA BURGLAR' BUSTED - AND TURNS OUT TO BE TRIO
Staten Island is now ninja-free. The NYPD says it's ended the career of the so-called Staten Island ninja who robbed 19 homes in the borough since last May - and...
OLYMPIAN 'DATE RAPE' SHOCKER
A gold-medal Olympic ice dancer from Ukraine was the target of a bizarre attack at a posh California resort when someone slipped a date-rape drug into her drink as she...
FOES KEEP $LUGFEST OFF 'STREET'
The two primary rivals agreed on one thing yesterday: to depart from an old-school Philly tradition of giving out "street money" - cash for party officials who do election-day duties...
APPLE GIVES DEMS EDGE
ALBANY - John McCain leads Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama in the suburbs and upstate, but trails statewide because of strong New York City support for the Democrats, according...
WEARY WARRIORS OFF TO INDY & NC
PITTSBURGH - Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama are taking no break from the campaign trail as they launch into the final wave of contests. There are nine left. After...
HILL WIELDS A MIGHTY PENN.
PHILADELPHIA - Hillary Rodham Clinton scored a stunning double-digit win over Barack Obama in the critical state of Pennsylvania last night - rejuvenating her hobbled presidential campaign as she beat...
CUSSIN' BUBBA GOES BILL-ISTIC AT 'RACE CARD'
PHILADELPHIA - Bill Clinton accused Barack Obama of playing the "race card" against him - then got caught cussing on the air at the end of a radio interview. The...
CLINTON COVERS ALL HER 'BASES'
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton coasted to victory in Pennsylvania by winning over white men - a key swing group - as well as blue-collar workers, women and a sizable chunk...
GUMSHOE TALE OF THE TAPE
An Alabama lawman told jurors yesterday how disgraced gumshoe Anthony Pellicano helped bring down a KKK monster responsible for one of the most infamous atrocities of the civil-rights struggle. Doug...
SEX 'OVA' EASY
Eating a good breakfast dramatically increases a woman's chances of having a son rather than a daughter, a surprising new study has found. Nearly six out of 10 women who...
'SAD' RATHER CATCHES BREAK
Dan Rather can subpoena the investigator CBS hired to fact-check his flawed story about President Bush's Vietnam-era military service, a judge ruled yesterday. Judge Ira Gammerman gave the green light...
EX-ARMY MAN IN SPY RAP
An elderly former US Army engineer was arrested yesterday on charges he fed national defense secrets - including information about nuclear weapons - to the Israeli government more than 20...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Staten IslandA drunken man who swiped a Toyota that was left unattended was captured after he slammed into a fence in Arlington, authorities said yesterday. The trouble began at 3:45...
SHE'S AFTER A RANSOM, NOT VOTES
PITTSBURGH - Just when you thought the Democratic Party could not suffer any more indignities, Pennsylvania officials kept liquor stores in the state closed yesterday for primary day - a...
HILL PLAYS UNDERDOG ROLE WELL
LAST night, Pennsylvanians went for the fighter, not the uniter. Despite Barack Obama's claims that he would "do better than expected," Hillary Rodham Clinton overwhelmed him in the Keystone State....
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Tue.: 257; Lucky Sum: 14 / Midday Win-4 Tue.: 7205; Lucky Sum: 14 / Evening Nos. Tue.: 053; Lucky Sum: 8 / Evening Win-4 Tue.: 8289;...
US AIR FARCE
Defense Secretary Robert Gates just de livered a surprising public rebuke of one of his own branches of the armed services - chiding the Air Force for not doing enough...
A BUCK FINALLY STOPS
Will wonders never cease. Is Mayor Bloomberg practicing accountability - rather than merely talking about it? Has he actually fired somebody because of official actions - or lack thereof -...
THE IRAQ THEY WON'T TALK ABOUT
BOTH opponents and supporters of the war in Iraq seem reluctant to raise the issue of what's going on there now as an issue in the presidential race. Opponents, of...
A NONPROFIT THREAT
THE budget scandal now engulfing the City Council is just the latest in a long line of controversies involving city funding of nonprofits. Today, the outrage is staffers having allocated...
INSIDE COLLEGE COSTS
WHY does college cost so much? Two basic reasons: People will pay what the colleges charge, and colleges have little incentive to reduce tuition. Those who want the government to...
TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE
Hillary Clinton refuses to die. Having been given up for dead after losing Iowa, she rebounded in New Hampshire. Then a string of 11 straight consecutive losses - followed by...
YET ANOTHER 'BILLBO' BLOWUP
AW, "s--t" - another Billbo eruption. Back in January, worried Democrats pleaded with Bill Clinton to zip his wildly flapping lips. Teddy Kennedy and Rahm Emanuel reportedly told him to...
BARRON'S RAP SHEET: FRIENDS IN LOW PLACES
THE ISSUE: City Councilman Charles Barron's escorting of rapper Foxy Brown off Rikers Island. It's nice to know that our City Council members have nothing better to do than serve...
PA'S TRASH, TERRORISTS' TREASURE
THE ISSUE: Copies of the Freedom Tower blueprints found in a New York City garbage can. The terrorists chose to attack the World Trade Center because it was a massive...
DIESEL FUEL HITS $5.10, GASOLINE SELLS FOR $4
For the first time in New York City, diesel fuel broke the $5-a-gallon mark and regular gas hit a $4 high yesterday as crude oil shot to its seventh straight...
NUMBERS GAME
Yahoo! delivered on its heavily anticipated earnings report yesterday, but the Internet icon's results likely won't be enough to break the impasse with Microsoft. Yang made clear right from the...
WSJ EDITOR DEPARTING
The Wall Street Journal's top editor, Marcus Brauchli, resigned yesterday, four months after Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. acquired the paper and parent Dow Jones. Brauchli, who became managing editor shortly...
SHORT OF THE MARK
AUDIT reports for the celebrity weekly magazines are in for the calendar year 2006, and the analysis proves that when auditors come knocking, they always find something. In this case,...
BANKS TUNING IN ON CLEAR CHANNEL FUNDING
Clear Channel Communications' shares jumped yesterday as investors gained more confidence that the Wall Street banks financing the $27 billion takeover of the radio giant by private-equity firms THL Partners...
DIMON JUICED BY BEAR BIG TANG
JPMorgan Chase is pushing some key Bear Stearns officials to decide if they're in or out, as it prepares to wield the ax on as many as half of Bear's...
ANNUAL ANARCHY
Angry Citigroup shareholders spent four hours yesterday jousting with CEO Vikram Pandit and Chairman Winfried Bischoff about everything from the company's recent dividend cuts to the effectiveness of the board...
IGNORE DOOMSAYERS
COLORFUL Sam Zell, Vornado Realty Trust's Steve Roth and Apollo's Bill Mack recently unveiled their take on the wild state of real estate at the NYU REIT conference panel entitled,...
NEW CEO AT LOEHMANN'S
Loehmann's named Jerry Politzer chief executive officer. He is succeeding Robert N. Friedman, who is retiring after 16 years with the company. Politzer was most recently president of Value City...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A five-star hotel in China has dressed its window cleaners in Spider-Man costumes to avoid scaring guests. "Nobody wants to see a person suddenly appear outside their window, so we...
'EMANCIPATION' SERVES ITS PURPOSE
THE unusual venue in which it is being performed adds a chilling emotional resonance to "Emancipation," Ty Jones' new play about the 1831 slave rebellion led by Nat Turner being...
COBRAS AND 'COUNTRY'
LET'S see: Your word of mouth is dreadful. Your star can't re member his lines. Your director and his blogging sidekick have been hammered for cutting a famous dead author's...
STARR REPORT
Showtime has renewed "The Tudors" for a third season, scheduled to pre miere next year, with Henry VIII (Jonathan Rhys Mey ers) returning to wed third and fourth wives Jane...
LAURA BUSHED
HEY, Laura Bush, don't quit your day job. It's not that the first lady was so terrible as a guest co-host on the third hour of NBC's "Today" show yesterday....
WHAT?!! AND GIVE UP SHOW BUSINESS?
WILLIAM Hung is re turning to the anonymity from whence he emerged. Hung, who shot to C-level fame with his awful rendition of Ricky Martin's "She Bangs" during "American Idol"...
CNN SIGNS KING TO 1-YEAR EXTENSION
JUST as Katie Couric was reportedly eyeing his juicy primetime job, Larry King has signed a contract extension with CNN that could keep him on the air through 2010. It...
END OF HIS RUN
NOT even a St. Bernard can save Det. Ed Green's job tonight on "Law & Order." As a result, the detective played by Jesse L. Martin exits the NBC series...
FILM FEST TRIBECKONS
WHEN you open a comedy with a woman being told by a doctor that she has a one-in-a-million chance of becoming pregnant, my experience tells me there is pretty much...
IT'S A FESTIVAL FRENZY
IF the New York Film Festival feels somewhat like taking a graduate-level course in cinema, then its younger cousin, the Tribeca Film Festival, is more akin to a frat party....
EIGHTY ONE MAKES FOOD COUNT
HAVING dined at the new Eighty One four times, I doubted the need for a fifth meal last week. I'd tasted every dish more than once and the menu was...
WORTH THE WAITLIST (KINDA)
WE couldn't believe our good fortune. We had cracked the impenetrable fortress that is Momofuku Ko, the tiny East Village showcase for chef David Chang's Asian-accented New American fare that...
SPORTS SHORTS
NFL: Seahawks cut Alexander The Seahawks released former MVP Shaun Alexander, just 26 months after he signed a $62 million contract as the franchise's cornerstone. Seattle president Tim Ruskell said...
HONDO: HOLD THE MOOSE!
Hondo's high hopes for the Jays went up in smoke last night as they had their ashes kicked by the Rays to reduce the earnings to 250 kanehls. Tonight, since...
THESE ARE THE GOOD OL DAYS
(Fourth in a series)Each day leading up to the draft, The Post will take a position-by-position look at the top players. Today: Offensive linemen. Which team improved the most last...
GIANTS PICKING TE WOULD BE A REAL SHOCK
It will come as little surprise if the Giants, with the 31st pick in Saturday's NFL draft, take a player at any one of six positions: any of four spots...
BAKER FLIES JET COOP
Jets tight end Chris Baker, disgruntled with his contract status and management's apparent refusal to renegotiate, has left the team's offseason strength and conditioning program in protest, The Post has...
DETAILS, DETAILS...
Tracy Porter had little idea this was coming while he was in the middle of his pre-draft visit with the Jets. "What is your favorite TV show and why?" was...
BIRD: JACKSON A GOOD FIT FOR KNICKS
Living legend Larry Bird said his former Pacers point guard Mark Jackson would be a nice fit to coach the Knicks, but wasn't the right fit in Indiana last year....
ISIAH'S NEW GIG NOT MUCH
Donnie Walsh said Isiah Thomas' new position, which has no title and is not full time, won't include working with players and may be very temporary, sources said. The Post...
LIFELESS METS PUT TO SWEEP
CHICAGO - Pick a Carlos, either Carlos. Thanks in large part to both, the Mets' offense has suddenly become a lifeless mess. A getaway-day lineup that was minus three starters...
HEILMAN NO WORRY TO WILLIE
CHICAGO - Willie Randolph turned defensive yesterday when asked if Aaron Heilman was showing the effects of too much use. Heilman wasn't called on in yesterday's 8-1 loss to the...
SOSA FAR, SOSA NOT GOOD
CHICAGO - Willie Randolph likes to say that Jorge Sosa serves roles out of the Mets' bullpen. Right now, the only thing Sosa seems to be serving up is batting...
CASHING IN ON AVERY PUNK ACT
It's the NHL, all right - the National Hypocrites League. Following a week during which the NHL hierarchy cast Sean Avery as the ultimate villain and took the extraordinary step...
RANGERS VS. PENS IS REAL CROS CELEBRE
So it will be the Rangers vs. the Penguins, the Pittsburgh fans vs. Jaromir Jagr, the Rangers vs. Sidney Crosby, which is to say the Rangers vs. the world. The...
ISN'T IT GRAND!
CHICAGO - Where Joba Chamberlain can help the Yankees the most makes for good heated discussions and headlines. Yet, if Chamberlain was the starter Hank Steinbrenner and a lot of...
CANSECO STICKS WITH CLEMENS STORY
Jose Canseco's long-awaited meeting with federal agents took place yesterday with no surprises, according to Canseco's lawyer. Gregory Emerson, Canseco's new counsel, said the former slugger answered the questions of...
A-ROD MAY BE BACK BY TOMORROW
CHICAGO - Alex Rodriguez plans to rejoin the Yankees tomorrow. When he plays, however, isn't known. According to Joe Girardi, Rodriguez made it from New York to Miami "in the...
Oakley wants Herb, Patrick as coach
Mark Hale was in midtown tonight for Charles Oakley's cooking TV preview show and the always colorful former Knicks power forward didn't disappoint.Here's Hale's report.In Charles Oakley's mind, the next...