March 26, 2007
MAILBAG MONDAY
Mail call has to hold a bit because it was such a busy day at Mets camp. The bottom line here is that Pedro Martinez looks like he is going...
BEST OF: Playing catch up
Pretty Prague. Pretty, pretty Prague.Whilst you wait (with bated breath, no doubt!) for tomorrow's paper and attendant blog bonus (this week, it's all about Colombia, yes, that's right, Colombia), have...
Sanchez not definite on surgery
By MARK HALEDuaner Sanchez is here and he said that surgery is not definite. Omar Minaya, though, said that "based upon our doctors, he needs surgery," and his agent, Bean...
Torre makes right move with rotation.
By GEORGE KINGThe idea that Carl Pavano will be the Yankees' Opening Day pitcher repulses some people because in New York it's an honor to work that day. You can...
Meet Disney's Latest Classic
The trailer for Disney's latest CGI cartoon Meet the Robinsons gave me no reason to hope for anything special, but when something really fresh comes along, it's tough to summarize...
Sanchez worse
By MARK HALEOmar Minaya just spoke to us about Duaner Sanchez, and the Mets have handed out a release. Basically, Sanchez has "a hairline fracture of the coracoid, a small...
Sanchez fracture
By MARK HALEDuaner Sanchez has a fractured bone in his right shoulder, according to agent Bean Stringfellow, and the already-rehabbing Met reliever is deciding whether to have surgery.According to Stringfellow...
Uncle Remus and Cousin Quentin
If you take a few days off in this job, there's a lot of catching up to do. Disney seems to be testing the waters for a possible DVD release...
Lee won't play, Morris will
By MARC BERMAN David Lee is out. Randolph Morris is in.Not a good trade-off for tonight's showdown vs. the Magic.Lee snuck through a side door of the gym, into the...
Deal of the Day
Forget those overpriced vintage shop peasant tops that take a bottle of febreze and three goes in the washer to deodorize.Pick up this traditional Peasant Top by Candela available at...
Day 45: Jeter vs. Reyes, A-Rod vs. Beltran
This is the time of year for predictions and I was hoping to make them a little more entertaining for those who kindly find their way to this blog. Since...
NEW JERK CITY
WHEN he started out as a business professor at Stanford University, Robert Sutton wasn't much good in the classroom, and at evaluation time his students let him know it. So...
BAD COMPANY
As told to Chris Erikson and Hannah Seligson. Names were withheld to protect both the innocent and the guilty. The job: Editor at a women's magazine "I knew going in...
DREAM JOB: DAMIEN FAHEY
BY age 12, Damien Fahey was running his own pretend radio station in his bedroom, recording his shows on tape. Two years later, he was interning at a local station...
UNHAPPY MEALS
ONE chilly Sunday morning upstate, Jerry Newman took his teenage daughter to breakfast at a local fast-food joint, where she discovered a condom peeking out of her egg sandwich. "Great,"...
GO TO GREG
Q. I work with an office "Sanjaya" - an empty suit who succeeds despite a lack of talent. Is it appropriate to discuss such a colleague with your boss when...
MARIAN ANDERSON - A VOICE HEARD ONCE IN A CENTURY
The great contralto broke racial barriers with her magnificent voice and quiet dignity. Marian Anderson was born on Feb. 27, 1897, in Philadelphia. She began singing at the Union Baptist...
IDOL TUNEUPS
SANJAYA MALAKAR Age: 17 Hometown: Federal Way, Wash. Starting look: Like a gay Michael Jackson. Makeover: From an Eva Longoria blowout to Diana Ross curls, you never know what Sanjaya...
OLD IS NEW AGAIN
VOICE, voice and still more voice. That is the common demand of last week's otherwise contrasted operatic new comers, a completely new production of Rossini's's rare bel canto gem, "La...
FORGET ABOUT THIS TALE OF AMNESIA
SHOULD you ever seek psy chiatric help, don't be sur prised if the shrink handling your case suffers from an unidentified trauma of his own. As with so many plays...
STAR STUCK
REMEMBER the fifth chair on "The View," the one vacated by Star Jones last June? It's still vacant, but the job - one of the highest-profile slots in all of...
SIMPLER SIMON IN AFRICA KENYAN SLUM 'HELL ON EARTH'
'AMERCIAN Idol" stars Ryan Seacrest and Simon Cowell spent only three days in Africa together - but you won't see them joke about it on the show . "It's something...
BLONDE AND BLOTTO
IF you drink, you die. Strict? Sure. True? Definitely. And if you're a female freshman in college and you don't die from binge drinking, then, for sure, you'll end up...
STARR REPORT
"Cagney & Lacey" was brought back from cancella tion once - and now light ning has struck twice. The show's first season, sched uled to be released on DVD in...
CYCLONE SWIRLS AROUND CONEY ISLAND BUILDER
City officials have come out swinging against the developer promising a Vegas-glitz makeover for Coney Island's prime real estate - saying he's nothing but a huckster with a history of...
CALL WAITING (& WAITING) FOR SPECIAL-ED PARENTS
A majority of parents of special-education students are left hanging on the phone when they call the Education Department for help, a report out today charges. A survey of 98...
'HERO' WAS A HORROR
A Bronx man who braved a building blaze to alert residents and rescue an elderly woman yesterday would have been hailed as a hero - if not for the fact...
RENT-FREE FORTRESS
A dozen artists have created a masterpiece that - depending on the viewer's perspective - might be called "A Renter's Dream," or "A Landlord's Nightmare." The artists and their families...
1 DEAD, 1 HURT IN CAR STABBING
Two drivers for a Manhattan employment agency were stabbed - one fatally - in a dispute over a woman early yesterday, according to cops. Norberto Colón-Noa, 37, and an unidentified...
1 COP MISSED, 1 HIT ALL VICTIMS
The undercover detective whose shots ignited the 50-bullet barrage that killed Sean Bell was indicted on two manslaughter raps, even though none of his ammo hit anyone, The Post has...
PATH TRAIN JUMPS TRACK
A Manhattan-bound PATH train derailed shortly after it left Hoboken yesterday, trapping 300 passengers underground, officials said. No one was injured in the 2:55 p.m. derailment, which kept passengers stranded...
HOSPS HEAR NAME GAME $IREN SONG
The city's public hospital system is considering putting the names of big-bucks donors on some of its facilities in exchange for cash - which means Bellevue could soon be home...
LOTS OF ACHOOS ARE DUE
Big Apple allergy sufferers should get ready to stock up on tissues and antihistamine, as experts are predicting a spring of sky-high pollen counts. And that has New Yorkers, already...
BRILLIANT BEAUTY CUT DOWN
A brilliant, polished Southern belle who moved to New York to work in public relations was gunned down in a seedy Boston neighborhood - caught in a gang shooting at...
'MALLED' BY JUDGE LINKS
A woman injured in a Staten Island strip mall run by the wife of a prominent judge has seen her $5 million negligence lawsuit bounced around the court system for...
MOB HIT GAL'S BIG BREAK
The newest "Soprano" is a regular Bronx girl who's made it good. Cara Buono, who plays the mob wife of made man Christopher Moltisanti (Michael Imperioli), was originally just supposed...
HOLY SEE YA? EGAN 'RESIGNS' NEXT WEEK
A week from today, Edward Cardinal Egan will turn 75. Within a day or two of that, he will send Pope Benedict XVI a letter offering to resign as archbishop...
POL: BEEF UP VICTIMS' LAW
A lawmaker yesterday demanded tougher penalties for violators of protection orders - but the family of a Queens beauty allegedly slain by her accused rapist called it too little, too...
RAGE AROUND HIP-HOP HOTHEAD
The city's rap wars are on the brink of exploding after a thug performer allegedly beat up a 14-year-old kid for wearing a rival's shirt - and the boy turned...
HMOS FAIL TO TEST FOR LUNG ILLNESS
Nearly six out of every 10 patients with the debilitating respiratory diseases that hit many World Trade Center workers are not even given the basic lung test needed to diagnose...
B'KLYN MAN FLEEING COPS FALLS 19 FLOORS TO HIS DEATH
A Brooklyn man who beat up his girlfriend met a grisly end over the weekend when he fell from a 19th-floor terrace trying to escape cops, police sources said yesterday....
AUXILIARY FURY
A woman whose auxiliary-cop dad was murdered in the line of duty 13 years ago says the NYPD abandoned her family - and added insult to injury by misspelling her...
DRAG CLUB BATTLE OF SEXES SUIT
A man claims a female employee of gender-bending restaurant Lucky Cheng's roughed him up, and he now wants the East Village eatery to pay up. In a lawsuit filed this...
HOSP MADE ME ILL: SUIT
A Manhattan woman who underwent a double mastectomy because of breast cancer left the hospital with a different problem she'd never expected - a potentially deadly "superbug." Nicolle Muller says...
HOME $ICK NYERS
Frank Ruggiero could lose his Ozone Park home next year - thanks to a broker who convinced him to refinance his mortgage under a loan whose rates could triple by...
MAD. AVE. 'BURGLAR' BAGGED
A burglar was arrested yesterday after he broke into a high-end women's clothing store on Madison Avenue yesterday. A witness saw José Torres, 44, go through the back door of...
GIRL SUES OVER SCHOOL 'SEX ATTACK'
A Bronx junior-high-school cheerleader has sued the city Department of Education and the YMCA for $5 million, saying a male high-school student sexually assaulted her last year in the girls'...
HILL HAULS IN A COOL $10 MIL
WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's weekend trip to California capped off a breathless week of fund-raising that hauled in nearly $10 million, revealing the reach of her network of...
TOP RABBIS MAKE CUT
They must be nice Jewish boys. Three business leaders put their heads together and came up with a list of the 50 most influential rabbis in America, according to the...
ANNA ANSWERS TO COME TODAY
The mystery of Anna Nicole Smith's death could be solved today in Florida, when the medical examiner reveals details of his six-week probe. Broward County ME Dr. Charles Perper is...
'TMNT' HAS GREEN BELT IN TIX SALES
"TMNT" sliced and diced its box-office foes over the weekend, according to box-office receipts. The computer-animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles flick debuted with $25.5 million, beating out "300," which fell...
ELTON'S GARDEN PARTY
Even though Elton John sang, "I got no wish to be living 60 years on" in his opening ballad, the superstar had the time of his life at Madison Square...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
ManhattanThis man robbed a man and attempted to rob a woman in Murray Hill, police said. The unidentified suspect first struck at about 4:45 p.m. January 15 at an ATM...
MAKING APRIL FOOL OF SPITZ
'GOV. Steamroller" is on the brink of suffering his second major defeat - and this one will be his biggest yet. Sources close to Gov. Spitzer, a self-described "f- -...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sun.: 548 Lucky Sum: 17 / Midday Win-4 Sun.: 9854; Lucky Sum: 26 / Evening Nos. Sun.: 655; Lucky Sum: 16 / Evening Win-4 Sun.: 6306;...
REVENGE OF THE RAT RANGERS
City Health Commission Tom Frieden's Rat Rangers last week shut down a famous French bistro and a lowly Brooklyn veterans hall, among other eateries, as the Great Taco Bell Rodent...
IT'S ELIOT'S MOVE
With just six days to go before the start of the new fiscal year, and with no state-budget deal in sight, New Yorkers are about to see just what their...
EGYPT'S MIXED REFORM BAG
CAIRO BACK to the future or for ward to the past? As Egypt prepared for today's constitutional referendum, the question has been hotly debated in Cairo's famous teahouses. President Hosni...
THE NEXT THREATS
THE U.S. military has now made over 2 million individual deployments to Iraq and or Afghanistan. The preponderance, of course, has been our "ground-pounding" soldiers and Marines - many on...
GONZO POLITICS
TWO weeks earlier on Capitol Hill, there was a groundswell of Republican demands - public and private - that President Bush pardon the convicted Scooter Libby. Last week, as Alberto...
SAVE N.Y. BANKS: CUT PORK INSTEAD
NOBODY likes taxes, but we all agree that everybody should pay his fair share. The state Assembly this month passed a budget that included proposals to close "tax loopholes" -...
THE GORACLE HEATS UP: BIG EGO, BIGGER SCAM
THE ISSUE: Al Gore's visit to Capitol Hill to testify about global warming. A bunch of condescending hypocrites inhabits the House and Senate ("Global-Warming Hysteria," Philip Stott, PostOpinion, March 21)....
MORGAN'S NEW CENTURY FIRE SALE
In a dramatic reversal, Morgan Stanley is in the process of holding an auction for $2.48 billion in mortgages from subprime lender New Century. The loans represent the collateral given...
MIXED SIGNALS
In an effort to convince investors to support their $26 billion leveraged buyout of Clear Channel Communications, the private equity firms buying the radio giant have questioned bullish calls by...
SPRING PREENING
Just as the winter thaw chores end, spring brings work anew - and new ways to spend at home. House Beautiful knows that furniture buys are a big thrill in...
MAYOR MIKE'S GREEN DREAM
In what would be a green legacy for Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the administration is pushing a plan to reduce air pollution and spur the building of modern power plants. The...
VIDEO'S LONG SHOT
Underlying the online video joint venture between NBC and News Corp. is a risky gamble that the Internet audience will evolve from watching short clips to a long-form viewing culture....
CONFIDENT HOYAS HAD IT ALL ALONG
THEY had no way of knowing it, but they'd already started playing the most perfect basketball game of their lives. The scoreboard may have told a different story, may have...
HAPPY PATS DAY
PATRICK Ewing was in the center of this deafening roar now, an old familiar Final Four roar, and he was standing amidst the euphoria while on his cell phone, celebrating...
TALK OF THE 'TOWN AGAIN
One classic deserves another. One shocking ending deserves another. One more time Georgetown and North Carolina gave us an NCAA tournament game for the ages. Trailing by 10 with 6:02...
FINAL FLOR.
ST. LOUIS - New Yorker Joakim Noah roared "Keep Hating!" at the crowd, then sprinted into the Edward Jones Dome stands and clasped his beauty-queen mother Cecilia in a embrace....
FLORIDA KEY: STAYING POWER
ST. LOUIS - Win or lose in Atlanta, repeat or no, we may never see the likes of these Florida Gators again. There will be other champions, maybe even from...
JT III PART POP AND PART CARRIL
With five seconds left in overtime, John Thompson III finally allowed himself to believe his Hoyas had successfully completed a remarkable comeback and would indeed go to the Final Four...
A WINNING PAIR
There are winners, and then there are winners. It's easy to pin that label on Greg Oden, who at 7-foot and a sculpted 280 pounds is impossible to miss. It's...
UCLA STAR AFFLALO BORN TO BE A BRUIN
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Arron Afflalo may have been destined to play basketball at UCLA. On Oct. 15, 1985, Afflalo was born a short distance away from Pauley Pavilion at...
TIGER CORRALS DORAL
MIAMI - On Saturday night, Tiger Woods spent the evening in a private box watching his pal, Roger Federer, dispatch his first-round opponent at the Sony Ericsson tennis tournament in...
JAWORSKI IN LINE TO JOIN MNF TEAM
Another year, another new Monday Night Football broadcast team. Several sources told The Post yesterday that Joe Theismann has called his final Monday Night game for ESPN, and will likely...
CBS CREW CLEARLY CAPTURES THE MADNESS
USED to be, before tele casts became decorated with exploding graphics, "Dancing With The Stars" contestants and Tony Siragusa, that TV at least tried to make good on its promise...
GIRARD DIES AT 74
Jerry Girard, a wise-cracking, knowledgeable and popular Ch. 11 News sportscaster for more than 20 years, died yesterday afternoon in a Westchester hospital. Girard, diagnosed with cancer a year ago,...
COMMISH DOWNPLAYS SERGIO'S SPITTING FIT
MIAMI - PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem yesterday addressed the controversy surrounding Sergio Garcia spitting into the cup at the 13th hole in frustration on Saturday. "I'm sure we'll have...
CONTESSA'S 'PURSUIT' PAYS OFF
Three of six betting interests in $65,000 National Treasure overnight stakes at mile and 70 yards were saddled by leading trainer Gary Contessa: Bare Dancer and My Kitty, coupled as...
'SPUN' BOUNCES BACK
It often pays to forgive one bad race, especially with 3-year-olds on the Triple Crown trail. Such was the case with Hard Spun in Saturday's Grade 2, $500,000 Lane's End...
SPORTS SHORTS
MLB: Pirates' Sanchez may miss opener In Bradenton, Fla., NL batting champion Freddy Sanchez may begin this season on the Pirates' bench. The third baseman, out since March 6 with...
ISLES' CLOCK RUNNING OUT
JUST when it looked as if the Islanders could have launched pucks at Henrik Lundqvist until Chris Simon comes back and still never score, Alexei Yashin, who had spent two...
KNICKED UP
Two more Knicks starters went down on the eve of the biggest game of the season, and Isiah Thomas isn't sure if he'll have Eddy Curry or Steve Francis tonight...
MORRIS SET FOR KNICKS DEBUT
Randolph Morris is getting a crash course on the NBA. Working at the end of yesterday's practice with assistant coach Mark Aguirre, Morris futilely tried one of the back-down post...
TAKIN' THE FIFTH
PORT ST. LUCIE - Mike Pelfrey came out of Willie Randolph's office late yesterday afternoon with a big smile on his face. He had just gotten word from Randolph that...
MILLEDGE OK AFTER GETTING PLUNKED
PORT ST. LUCIE - The Mets' grand plans for Lastings Milledge nearly blew up yesterday in the ninth inning of an 11-3 loss to the Astros, when Milledge was hit...
BOONE TOWN
About two weeks ago, when the Nets were in Oklahoma City and coach Lawrence Frank having tried virtually every combination and variation of his roster, he approached veteran Cliff Robinson....
SIX-SHOOTER
If the playoffs were to begin tomorrow instead of in two weeks, the Rangers would enter the tournament as the very same sixth seed they were a year ago. Only...
MOUND MELTDOWN
LAKELAND, Fla. - Welcome to Staff MRI. When spring training opened, the Yankees' biggest question mark was their starting rotation. Now, one week from Opening Day, that rotation is in...
PAVANO ON THE SPOT
LAKELAND, Fla. - With Carl Pavano the betting favorite to be the Yankees' Opening Day starter, Jason Giambi hopes the embattled hurler capitalizes on a golden opportunity to show his...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A Wisconsin fire marshal has agreed to resign - after he was accused of writing an online psychic and asking the spiritualist if he or others would be able to...