June 22, 2007
SNAP JAR: In the weeds
What's hiding under the ground cover, nobody knows/Rob Mangione In New Orleans, you eventually have to admit to yourself that it's time to stop eating and get some proper exercise....
Series pick
I'm off today but wanted to get my series pick out there.After six straight series losses, I say the ship still doesn't get righted this weekend. Mets lose a series...
Bombers Battling The AARP
The Yankees head to AT&T Park, formerly SBS Park, formerly Pacific Bell Park, to play the San Francisco Giants this weekend. The Bombers hope to overcome their recent Western Time...
Where have all the (game) cowboys gone?
Eidos recently released the "Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Anniversary" edition game, celebrating a decade of Ms. Croft's accomplishments. In pointing out how very relevant Lara still is these days, Eidos...
Get yer game face on, it's tourney time
Do you have a PS3? If you do, then you probably have "Resistance: Fall of Man." In that case, you should probably look into the first nationwide tournament for "Resistance:...
You might be a redneck...if you like these games
Comedy Central's added two games to their roster of free web games. In the incredibly complex "Deer Stacker 2," you aim to stack 'em deers in your pickup, using the...
Emulate This
When it was my turn to be exposed to chicken pox, I was taken over to my childhood best friend's house and made to hang out so I could catch...
FIVE THOUGHT FRIDAY: TULOWITZKI, DAMON, GIRARDI
Back with Five-Thought Friday:1. The Yankees-Rockies series was the first extended play I have seen from Colorado shortstop Troy Tulowitzki, and my impression is that the Rockies have a star....
Deal of the Day
Maybe you like jungle cats or near-disposable jewelry. Or maybe you are a woman of a certain age who isn't shy about enjoying the company of young menz.Either way, this...
Dumbest, smartest draft pick
By MARC BERMANI need your help. For a Sunday graphic with our draft preview, I have to select the Knicks "smartest'' pick of all time, their "dumbest'' pick of all...
LIVEBLOG/NOLA: At Nowhere, turn left
Back from the Gulf Coast. Made it all the way to Perdido Key in Alabama - for those of you following along at home, that's pretty much Pensacola, Florida. But...
Draft Begins Tonight
Larry Brooks is not impressed with this year's draft talent, but it doesn't mean these boys won't impress us once they lace up for whichever club selects and/or signs them.Remember...
The Draft
Be sure to check out Larry Brooks' column today, where he breaks down this year's underwhelming draft ... then let us know what you think of the prospects, on the...
NATURE'S FLOATING RAINBOWS
Spring means flowers and flowers mean butterflies. Classroom Extra takes a look at these fanciful creatures. There may be no more beautiful sign of spring than butterflies, who seemingly float...
FESTIVAL STEPS OUT
YOU can't stop the party. Though the famous downtown PrideFest is canceled this year, the thousands of locals and tourists who turn out for New York's Gay Pride festivities will...
HERITAGE OF PRIDE: OFFICIAL CALENDAR
* Rapture: Pier 54 (13th Street at the Hudson River) in Hudson River Park, tomorrow 6 p.m.-11 p.m. This dance party catered to women features DJ Kris Kono, who'll mix...
MARSHALING FORCES
PEOPLE of all faiths will unite this weekend for Heritage of Pride's annual gay pride March, led by grand marshals Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum of Congregation Beth Simchat Torah and the...
ROCKIN' THE JETT SET
WELCOME to the great outdoors. If you're not subwaying to the Coney Island Mermaid Day Parade tomorrow, which officially kicks off summer, kick the season off unofficially with one of...
DANCE OF DOOMED DUO IS FOR LOVERS OF THE CLASSICS
WHAT makes any version of "Romeo and Juliet" so heart-wrenching is the youth of the lovers and the arrow swiftness of their fate. During the entire 20th century, Prokofiev's "Romeo"...
MONEY ROLLS FOR 'PURPLE'
LUCILLE Goldsborough, 82, was touched by the movie version of "The Color Purple" when she saw it back in 1985. But she was moved to the point of tears when...
FORMER SUPREME NOT ULTIMATE SOLO ACT
POP quiz: Which of the following were sung by the Supremes: "Body and Soul," "The Girl From Ipanema," "Both Sides Now," "Smile," "Here's to Life," "I Can't Make You Love...
'VIEW' EYES MARIO
'THE View" is thinking about filling Rosie O'Donnell's empty chair with a gay man. Comedian Mario Cantone, who played Kristin Davis' flamboyant wedding planner on "Sex and the City," has...
ISAIAH: 'GREY'S' FIRED WRONG MAN
ISAIAH Washington is still mad as hell. The former "Grey's Anatomy" star, who was axed from the show on June 7 for his homophobic comments, is turning the tables on...
'HELL' TO PAY
CHEF-from-hell Gordon Ramsay is uncharacteristically silent about charges he rigged parts of his upcoming reality show. Four days after being slapped with a $29-million lawsuit claiming he'd concocted "fake TV"...
OSBOURNE HOUSE SELLS
POP singer Christina Aguilera has made an offer to buy one of the best-known houses in TV history - the Beverly Hills home owned by Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne that...
STARR REPORT
'Office' max "The Office" (Steve Carell) will begin its syndicated run this fall on TBS, the cable network announced yesterday - while NBC was also announcing that Fox-owned stations (Ch....
ALL-STAR GAME
SO you've signed two of prime time's biggest stars for your new situation comedy. Now what do you do? You find them a situation - preferably one which will allow...
PROFILE IN COURAGE
ANGELINA Jolie, whose offscreen antics have consistently upstaged her acting career since winning an Oscar seven years ago, puts aside her celebrity long enough to deliver a dazzling performance as...
TOSSED IN TRANSLATION
FOR more than a decade, Parker Posey has been not only one of the most ubiquitous performers in indie movies, but also one of the most consistent - even in...
TALE OF FORBIDDEN LUST GETS GLOWING UPDATE
I grew up in a strict Catholic family in New Jersey in which sex was never discussed. In fact, the word "sex" was never even mentioned. So I took to...
DEADPAN HUMOR WILL LEAVE YOU IN STITCHES
BEN Kingsley, who gave one of his best performances as a hit man in "Sexy Beast," delivers a comic variation on the role in John Dahl's dark, laugh-filled "You Kill...
VIOLENCE OF THE LAMBS
MARY had a little - AAAAGGH! WILL SOMEONE PULL THIS KILLER SHEEP'S JAWS OFF MY CAROTID!!! "Black Sheep" takes the horror-comedy genre to New Zealand, where a sinister agri-businessman has...
ROOM WITH A 'BOO!'
WELCOME to Room "1408" of the Hotel Dolphin. Obviously you can never leave, but you can check out any time you like - the window's right over there. John Cusack...
1 MAN, 2 WOMEN: TOUGH CHOICE
CAN a man be in love with two women at the same time? That's the question German director-writer Valeska Grisebach asks in her astute sophomore feature, "Longing." Markus (Andreas Muller)...
HOT PICKS FOR THE WEEK AHEAD
A FISH STORY The 25th annual Mermaid Parade, tomorrow, will be one to remember as aggressive building plans in the area have Coney Island locals worrying New York's version of...
BROADWAY
"A CHORUS LINE": Two and a half stars A clean carbon copy of a great original. Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, 236 W. 45th St.; (212) 239-6200. "COMPANY": Three stars Exuberant revival...
LONG-RUNNING
"AVENUE Q": Three stars John Golden Theatre, 252 W. 45th St.; (212) 239-6200. "BEAUTY AND THE BEAST": Two and a half stars Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, 205 W. 46th St.; (212) 307-4747....
OFF-BROADWAY
"BE": Two and a half stars A dance/movement/rhythm/mime piece by the Israeli performance troupe Mayumana. Union Square Theatre, 100 E. 17th St.; (212) 307-4100. Closes Sept. 2. "BEYOND GLORY": A...
POP, ROCK, FOLK
VIOLENT FEMMES: The seminal post-punkers are still trying to "Add It Up" today and tomorrow at 8 p.m. at Warsaw, 261 Driggs Ave., Brooklyn; (718) 387-0505. IAN HUNTER: Seat-wise, not...
JAZZ
BIRDLAND: Today and tomorrow: Lee Konitz Quartet, featuring Peter Bernstein. Sunday: Cynthia Jenkins and Louis Rosen. 315 W. 44th St.; (212) 581-3080. BLUE NOTE: Tomorrow: Cindy Blackman. 131 W. Third...
CLASSICAL
TODAY: Lorin Maazel leads soprano Deborah Voigt in Mahler's Symphony No. 7 at Avery Fisher Hall, 8 p.m. Brooklyn Youth Chorus' "Soundscapes," at Kumble Theater, Brooklyn Campus, Long Island University,...
CABARET
ALGONQUIN: Sunday and Monday: Barbara Carroll. 59 W. 44th St.; (212) 467-7444. FEINSTEIN'S: Today and tomorrow: Michael Feinstein. 540 Park Ave.; (212) 339-4095.
DANCE
METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE: Today and tomorrow, the American Ballet Theatre performs "Manon." Season runs through July 7. Tickets are $24 to $110. Lincoln Center, (212) 362-6000. 92nd STREET Y: Tomorrow...
FILM
BRYANT PARK: The free 2007 HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival features Christian Nyby's "The Thing From Another World" (1951) at 8 p.m. at 42nd Street and Sixth Avenue; (212)...
COMEDY
CAROLINES: Through Sunday: Nick Swardson, Paul Mooney. 1626 Broadway; (212) 757-4100. COMIX: Tomorrow: Lynne Koplitz, John Mulaney, Chuck Nice. 353 W. 14th St.; (212) 524-2500. GOTHAM: Through Sunday: Aries Spears....
FAIRS, FESTS, ETC...
IMMIGRANTS PARADE: Tomorrow from noon to 4 p.m. on Sixth Avenue from 37th to 57th streets. Dancers, bands and floats representing more than 50 ethnic communities, most too small for...
CASINO BEAT
NEW JERSEY* BOB DYLAN interprets his own songbook tonight and tomorrow night at 8 in the Borgata's Event Center. Tickets: $97-$137. Chicago and America play Sunday at 7:30 p.m. in...
PREVIEWS
"OLD ACQUAINTANCE": Margaret Colin and Harriet Harris (Frasier Crane's unscrupulous agent) spar in John Van Druten's 1940 comedy. American Airlines Theatre, 227 W. 42nd St.; (212) 719-1300. Opens June 28....
FATAL STEP OF FDNY HERO
A firefighter died yesterday after he slipped from a ladder and plummeted four stories while battling a small blaze in Brooklyn. Daniel Pujdak, 23, of Queens was climbing from the...
CROOKED JUDGE GETS JAIL BREAK
It looks like Gerald Garson won't be going to prison just yet. A day after the disgraced former judge was ordered to surrender and serve his 3-to-10-year sentence, Justice Jeffrey...
FIRST '08 HURDLE IS TEXAS-SIZED
The state with the earliest deadline for filing petitions to get on the 2008 ballot, should Mayor Bloomberg decide to run, is Texas. The Lone Star State has a mid-May...
UFO-FESTIVAL
Their truth will be here - as UFOlogists, alien abductees and flying-saucer flicks headline the first Culture of Contact convention in the city this weekend. The three-day festival, which begins...
JT HOAXER 'EVIL': LAWYER
The writer behind the literary hoax JT LeRoy is an "evil," "pimping" money-grubber who used her mental illness as a cover for a carefully crafted scheme, a lawyer for a...
NEVER HAD SHOT
An off-duty Brooklyn cop - who had left her gun at work - was caught defenseless when a masked intruder ambushed her as she arrived home and raped her at...
SHARPTON'S 'COP SHOUT' PAL BUSTED
A prominent Brooklyn civil-rights attorney - who has worked with the Rev. Al Sharpton - and his wife were arrested last night after he tried to stop cops from making...
CONGESTIVE FAILURE: SHELLY SLAMS MIKE
ALBANY - With lawmakers poised to end the state legislative session last night without acting on Mayor Bloomberg's controversial congestion-pricing plan, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver ripped into the mayor's handling...
BRONX MAN SHOOTS SELF IN HOSPITAL
A "depressed" Bronx man flagged down cops yesterday and requested a ride to a hospital - only to shoot himself in the head once he got there. Jason Taylor, 25,...
GI'S WIFE GETS A REPRIEVE
Following a blistering barrage of protests from politicians, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the wife of a missing hero soldier from Queens can stay in the United States and...
WEEKEND SUBWAY GUIDE
1 train: No trains between 242nd and 158th streets. Take free shuttle buses, the M3 bus, or A train instead. No trains between 14th Street and South Ferry - take...
NYERS KICKING BUTTS LIKE NEVER BEFORE
Big Apple smokers have achieved a new low - and that's a good thing. Just 17.5 percent of New Yorkers continue to smoke, which is the lowest number on record,...
QUITTERS HAIL THE BAN AND 'SCARY GUY' ADS
Even the healthiest of us have tobacco trouble. Yoga instructors, personal trainers and doctors are among the 1 million New Yorkers still struggling to beat their addiction. Erica Schweer, a...
DOT.COM SALE 'NETS BIG BUCKS
What's in a name? Thousands and even millions of dollars - given the results of yesterday's Internet domain-name auction in Midtown. The head-scratching bald.com cost $400,000. Seniors.com sold for $1.8...
SING ALONG WITH WOODY
Woody Allen directing an opera? You must be bananas. But it's true. It will happen in September 2008, says Placido Domingo, director of the Los Angeles Opera. Allen, a poster...
BX. CLERK'S UNBRIDALED POWER MA
The wedding crusher who turns away couples trying to get marriage licenses in The Bronx owes her $90,000-a-year job to her politically connected mom, sources have told The Post. Deputy...
RECRUITS HEAR COP FOE GO APE
Outspoken police critic Rev. Herbert Daughtry mocked paltry police salaries yesterday - saying the only new recruits the NYPD will attract are "monkeys" content to be paid "peanuts." The acid-tongued...
'SILVIO' PASSED ON HILLARY AD
ALBANY - Steven Van Zandt, who played Silvio Dante on "The Sopranos," whacked a chance to appear in Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's widely acclaimed video spoof of the show because...
TUB-KIDS HORROR
Two young New Jersey girls were found drowned in a bathtub and their dad hanged last night in a horrific murder-suicide, authorities said. Police went to the home on Claremont...
BUTTAFUOCO WIFE NIXES DIVORCE BID
Joey Buttafuoco's wife yesterday withdrew her divorce petition against her husband - even after the Long Island lothario hinted he was hooking up again with femme fatale Amy Fisher. Evanka...
BEACHGOER CRITIC: I WAS WRONG
The president of a community group in Brooklyn's Manhattan Beach who came under fire this week for comparing public beachgoers to "thugs" now says his organization won't push to have...
SECOND BROOKLYN MOM IN CAR-TOT BUST
For the second time this week, a woman was arrested for leaving her baby locked in her car as she went shopping, police sources said. Meda Bitterman, 36, of Brooklyn,...
STEAKS CLAIM TO FDNY TITLE
Fireman John Sierp is the new steak king of the FDNY. Bravest from four of the five boroughs met head to head at Gallagher's Steak House in Midtown yesterday for...
KENNEDY EX RIPS ANNULMENT 'BULLIES'
The ex-wife of former congressman Joseph Kennedy says it was only his powerful family's influence in the Catholic Church that made it possible for him to have their 12-year-old marriage...
E. SIDE HIT-RUN
A hit-and-run motorist - who struck a police car during a police chase on the Upper East Side before hitting a bicyclist and a pedestrian - was arrested yesterday. The...
SCHOOL FILM HAS FATHER SHREK-ING
A school district in Far Far Away Peekskill said yesterday it is looking into a parent's claim that his fifth-grader's teacher screened a bootleg copy of "Shrek the Third" for...
SICKO SLAYER NAILED
It took less than five hours for a jury to convict a Wall Street banker yesterday for butchering his former sweetheart - rejecting the crybaby defense claim that booze and...
GRAN-BASH INDICT
The man who allegedly beat a 101-year-old woman - a crime caught on video surveillance tape - was indicted yesterday in Queens Supreme Court for multiple hate crimes. In two...
MISSION IN ACTION
This is a mission 65 years in the making. Today, a World War II fighter plane finally gets around to completing its "Lost Squadron" mission, which ended in a crash-landing...
'CANE VICTIM TURNS HS STAR
For Allen J. Robinson, the march to getting a high-school diploma took more than pomp and circumstance - there were floods, destruction, and loss on the way. Robinson, 17, who...
ANTI-HAMAS CONFAB HOPES TO SAVE ABBAS
Leaders of Egypt, Jordan and Israel agreed to meet Monday to discuss how to thwart the Hamas terrorist movement and save beleaguered Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Abbas will use the...
YAHOO FOR MIKE SWITCHEROO: BUBBA
Former President Bill Clinton congratulated Mike Bloomberg yesterday for quitting the Republican Party - and predicted his wife will still be the next president even if the mayor joins the...
MEDIA GIVES $$ LIBERALLY
WASHINGTON - Nearly nine out of 10 journalists who made political donations gave to Democrats or left-wing groups, according to a bombshell new investigation into media bias - and perhaps...
SCRAMBLED SCRIBBLES OF PRINCESS 'PEN' PAL
Hey, Paris, it's I before E, except after C. The heirhead celebucon may know a lot about making naked sex videos and cruising around drunk, but basic spelling and grammar...
SO CRIME DOES PAY, PARIS
Paris Hilton will be paid an amazing $1.3 million to talk about her time in jail - an absurdly lucrative deal that sparked blue-collar outrage across the city yesterday. NBC...
BX. 'BARACKER'
WASHINGTON - Sen. Barack Obama has tapped four low-dollar donors from strategically important primary states, including Haile Rivera from The Bronx, to dine with him in D.C. Rivera, an aspiring...
FRED BLASTS WAR IN IRAQ
Likely 2008 Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson took a shot at President Bush's handling of the Iraq war in an interview with a British paper. "Any hints of anarchy should...
DOCK-STAR JOEL
Harmony has finally been restored between Piano Man Billy Joel and Sag Harbor Village - after a three-year battle over dock ownership on the tony enclave's waterfront. Both sides had...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan An East Village man slashed his wife after threatening to kill her, authorities said yesterday. Hiram Rivera, 29, argued with the 28-year- old woman in their East Sixth Street...
WHAT A ZERO!
HERE'S the first look at JPMorgan Chase's new headquarters across the street from Ground Zero - a 42-story skyscraper with a stack of floors protruding like a beer belly over...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Thu.: 053; Lucky Sum: 8 / Midday Win-4 Thu.: 1851; Lucky Sum: 15 / Evening Nos. Thu.: 584; Lucky Sum: 17 / Evening Win-4 Thu.: 5133;...
A SMALL SIGN OF RESPECT
A dose of common sense came from the federal government yesterday: Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced that Yaderlin Jimenez, wife of missing Army Spec. Alex Jimenez of Queens, is...
THEY GIVE AT THE OFFICE, TOO
That journalists are overwhelmingly liberal should come as no surprise. But the fact that so many will back up their bias with cash is startling. MSNBC.com's Bill Dedman used online...
'DISAPPOINTING'
'This is the session which had enormous potential, but is ending - from my perspective - with significant disappointment," Gov. Spitzer said as the Legislature went home last night. We...
IRAQ: MILITARY GAINS, GOV'T MESS
SIX months ago, the U.S.- led Coalition force in Iraq appeared to be largely in self-defense mode, allowing terrorists and insurgents much latitude in parts of Baghdad and the troubled...
MEDIA UNMASKED
HOW many times over the years have we seen mainstream media elites get on their high horse about their unbending commitment to objectivity? Wear ribbons after the 9/11 attacks? Heavens,...
MCCAIN: SUICIDELY RIGHT
SEN. John McCain's flamboyant heresies on campaign-finance reform, global warming and immigration have left conservatives suspicious that he has a mild form of Chuck Hagel's Disease: an uncontrollable moral exhibitionism...
A PREZ FROM N.Y.?
AMERICA'S last election of a new president came just days after the Yankees beat the Mets in the 2000 Subway Series. Now a different kind of all-New York contest -...
CONTROVERSIAL CELL-MATES
THE ISSUE: The Page Six cartoon featuring Paris Hilton in bed with a cigarette-smoking Jesus. Sean Delonas' cartoon is the worst blow to all who believe in Jesus Christ (Page...
REID SETS THE PACE FOR DEFEAT IN IRAQ
THE ISSUE: Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid's attack on Gens. Pace and Petraeus. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's remarks are not just ill-timed, they're unconscionable ("Harry-Kiri Reid," Editorial, June 17)....
GE, PEARSON SCUTTLE DOW JONES TALKS
Daunted by News Corp.'s $5 billion takeover bid, General Electric and Pearson PLC have pulled out of the running to buy Wall Street Journal parent Dow Jones & Co. GE,...
DOWN-LOW IPO
The Blackstone Group's public offering today is expected to be red hot, despite no sign of billionaire Stephen Schwarzman or anyone else from the firm whooping it up at the...
MIN TAKING HER TIME IN US CONTRACT TALKS
NEGOTIATIONS for a new contract for Us Weekly Editor-in-Chief Janice Min may go down to the wire. Jann Wenner, the boss at Wenner Media, had been putting the squeeze on...
MERRILL BLINKS
Merrill Lynch yesterday backed off its plan to force more than $850 million worth of arcane securities, seized from a collapsing Bear Stearns hedge fund, onto a reeling bond market....
BROOKLYN DESIGNERS' DEAL FAILS OVER BRAND CONTROL
It had all the makings of a dream come true. A deep-pocketed investor was willing to fork over $1.5 million over three years to help the design duo Costello Tagliapietra...
GUNNING FOR CASH COWS
It's open-hunting season in Washington on closing tax loopholes of Wall Street's super-rich - but some believe it's mostly just noisy blanks for now. Outraged politicians say they're rightly pushing...
GETTING GARNETT
If Kevin McHale, the Timberwolves' VP of basketball operations, is to be believed - a bit difficult since the Joe Smith contract impropriety - Minnesota is not actively trying to...
SLAMMIN' SAMMY NOT ESPN'S GAME
BY now, it stands to rea son, it's all a test of will and stamina. Either we'll grow tired of bashing ESPN or ESPN will grow tired of being bashed....
HATTON ITCHING FOR SLUGFEST
WHEN someone men tioned the brutality of the first fight between Mexico's Jose Louis Castillo and the late Diego Corrales, Floyd Mayweather Jr. grinned and said, "That wouldn't be me."...
AREA ANGLERS ENJOY GOOD CONDITIONS
SALTWATER action in the metropolitan area and around Long Island remains solid as anglers continue to score with a variety of species. In the Sound, porgies and fluke took the...
VOYLES, CYCLONES MAKE BIG SPLASH
Last night might have been a tale of two games for the Brooklyn Cyclones, but for J.R. Voyles it was just another step in the right direction. Before the two-hour...
HAMMON RETURNS TO FACE LIBS
Tonight's Liberty game against San Antonio (7:30, MSG) is almost a backdrop for the return of the top two scorers in team history in fan favorite Becky Hammon and record...
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER TOUGH DQ
Second borderline DQ in two days for similar incident in deep stretch. In eighth race, Le Dauphin, 14-1 going turf to dirt for Bill Mott, pressed pace, took lead turning...
SPORTS SHORTS
BASEBALL: Griffey returns to SeattleKen Griffey Jr. is expecting to get booed when he returns to Seattle tonight with the Cincinnati Reds. "I don't know what to expect," said Griffey,...
HONDO: SHA-ZAM!
Hondo, dropped back into the red yesterday when he whiffed with the Cubs and Pirates to put the neg ative number at 30 durhams. Today, he's guessing the Small Bears...
RAFALSKI PRICE HEADING HIGHER
The Devils' re-signing of Brian Rafalski isn't such a slam-dunk anymore. The workhorse defenseman can become an unrestricted free agent July 1, one of the prime backliners available. A reasonable...
DOUBTING TOM
The degree of the Mets' current struggles has been surprising. The degree of Tom Glavine's current struggles, though, should be a concern. The Mets are in a terrible skid, and...
MISSING MIKE
It's unlikely that Mike Piazza will have a second homecoming against the Mets this weekend. The legendary former Met, who returned to Shea last year with the Padres, is with...
NHL DRAFT LACKS IMPACT PLAYERS
COLUMBUS, Ohio - It won't be ultimate combat, but Versus apparently will televise tonight's first-round of the NHL Entry Draft beginning at 7 o'clock. Then again, it won't be an...
PUT TO SWEEP AT SWEEP
DENVER - The Dead Bats Society met The Heads Up You Know Where Club yesterday at Coors Field where the Yankees succumbed to the Rockies for the third straight game....
AT LAST, STEROID SEMANTICS DISCARDED
THE statement contains 285 words, much of it plainly vetted to the teeth by lawyers and agents and other various and sundry members of Jason Giambi's team of image polishers....
BARRY UP NEXT FOR THE BUMBLING BOMBERS
DENVER - The Yankees' approach to Barry Bonds this weekend will vary according to situations and who is on the mound for them. Sunday's starter Mike Mussina isn't going to...
JASON WILL SPILL JUICE
At some point during a phone conversation on Wednesday, Bud Selig finally convinced Jason Giambi that speaking to George Mitchell about his steroid use would be a smart move. Maybe...
YANKEES TAKING A GIANT RISK WITH IGAWA
DENVER - The reports have painted a positive picture. The eyes who have seen him pitch say Kei Igawa's mechanics are smoother and that his change-up is improved. Now, the...
DAMON IS NO SURPRISED BY DEAL
DENVER - Johnny Damon was the only Yankee uniform to comment on Jason Giambi's decision yesterday to meet with MLB special investigator George Mitchell. Every other player who was asked,...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
An Alaskan man faces a year in prison for selling seal penises. Michael Richard Zacharof sold the 100 "oosiks" to a local gift shop that intended to market the items...