May 26, 2008
PLAYERS: BLAME SHOULD FALL ON US
The Mets were on the field taking batting practice as Willie Randolph and Omar Minaya sat beneath the first-base stands talking about today's summit with ownership. The players took their...
Lineups in for Marlins opener
Sorry for the delay in posting the lineups, but some Wilpon-Willie Randolph drama held things up as the Mets prepared to open a three-game series at Shea Stadium tonight by...
SEVENTH BLUNDER
BALTIMORE -- Down a run in the seventh inning on the road wasn't an automatic Joba Chamberlain situation when he was Mariano Rivera's set-up arm. But, if the Yankees hadn't...
Randolph stays as Mets manager
The Mets are keeping Willie Randolph -- at least for now -- after the embattled manager met with the Wilpons and GM Omar Minaya today at Shea Stadium. We will...
ROTO - Put these vets 'Indy' trade market
Legendary hero Indiana Jones returns to the screen this week. Chances are, it will be a somewhat bittersweet adventure. We expect Indy will tease us with the possibility this entry...
McKellen, Serkis Confirmed for 'The Hobbit' -- But Tolkien's Son Vows To Stop It Unless He Gets $160M First
To no one's surprise, director Guillermo del Toro and producer Peter Jacksonconfirmed in an Internet chat over the weekend that Ian McKellen will be returning as Gandalf and Andy Serkis...
Get out the vote: MTV Movie Awards
If you caught one of the summer blockbusters in theaters this holiday weekend, you can sneak in a last-minute vote for the "Best Summer Movie So Far" MTV Movie Award.The...
Harkleroad To Be In Playboy
If you don't know who Ashley Harkleroad is, you will in a couple of months.USA Today is reporting the 61st-ranked U.S. women's tennis player will appear in August's edition of...
Archie: OK with stage dad
By DAVID K LI"American Idol" isn't over until "Larry King Live" sings.So here's what the kids said last night in their exit interviews with the King of CNN (and there's...
ST. JOHN'S LEADS FOUR LOCALS TO NCAA TOURNEY
Four local teams made college baseball's field of 64 today, and were all sent packing at least halfway across the country. St. John's (41-14) was a moderate bubble team, with...
WILLIE RANDOLPH KEEPS HIS JOB
Mets GM Omar Minaya did his best to make it sound that firing manager Willie Randolph was the furthest thing from his mind. "Willie has my support, the support of...
TRADING PLACES
The first-place team in the NL East will play at Shea Stadium tonight, but it's not the hometown Mets. It's the visiting Florida Marlins who enter the three-game series atop...
Cannes Gallery
A street protest that snarled already ridiculous traffic.And finally, your truly looking weary in front of the Carlton Hotel the afternoon before I left.
Coverage in today's Post
As we await word of Willie Randolph's fate after his meeting with the Wilpons today, speculation about Randolph's future swirled in the wake of Sunday's 4-1 loss to the lowly...
Box Office: Indy's Near-Record Weekend -- $126M For Four Days, $151M for Five
Looks like "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'' will miss the all-time Memorial Day box-office crown by around $4 million, but nobody at Paramount or Lucasfilm is...
WAR REPORTING FOR THE PEOPLE?
Ralph Peters brilliantly details how the media ignore the Iraq war's gains for political reasons ("Success in Iraq: A Media Blackout," PostOpinion, May 20). If Sen. John McCain wins, the...
A NEGOTIATED PEACE: 'BAM TALKS A BIG GAME
Amir Taheri's excellent article on Sen. Barack Obama's foolish pronouncements concerning his willingness to negotiate with Iran without preconditions clearly demonstrates the dangers of an Obama presidency ("Obama to A'Jad,"...
THE LAST DOUGHBOY
CHARLES TOWN, W. VA. NUMBERS come precisely from the agile mind and nimble tongue of Frank Buckles, who seems bemused to say that 4,734,991 Americans served in the military during...
DIVERS FOUND AFTER 19 HRS.
An American woman and her British boyfriend were plucked to safety in a dramatic rescue after a 19-hour scuba-diving ordeal in the waters of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. And now,...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK-Midday Nos. Sun.: 600; Lucky Sum: 6 / Midday Win-4 Sun.: 5172; Lucky Sum: 15 / Evening Nos. Sun.: 756; Lucky Sum: 18 / Evening Win-4 Sun.: 4366; Lucky...
AC CASINO REPLAYING FIRST ROLL
The Atlantic City casino that launched the East Coast gambling revolution 30 years ago today is celebrating the anniversary with a roll of the dice. Resorts Atlantic City opened at...
E. END ART ATTACK SPARKS OUTRAGE
The owner of a high-end East Hampton gallery went from hosting a famed photographer's opening to being dragged from it kicking and screaming during a surprise crackdown on liquor-laced art...
'INDY' DIGS UP GOLD AT BOX OFFICE
The long-awaited "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" lived up to expectations, blowing away its competition at the box office over the weekend. The latest installment of...
LIVE FROM MARS!
Here are the remarkable first photos from Mars transmitted last night by the spacecraft Phoenix - a view like no other taken on a mission like no other. Phoenix Photo...
BUBBA BLASTS MASS DISSING OF HILLARY
She just can't get no respect. At least that's what former President Bill Clinton said yesterday about his wife's treatment on the stump. The ex-prez told about 200 people in...
OBAMA INVOKES RFK
Days after his rival sparked a firestorm by recalling Robert F. Kennedy's assassination, Barack Obama yesterday invoked the memory of the slain senator to inspire graduates at a Connecticut commencement....
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Brooklyn A man was shot to death in his Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment yesterday by an acquaintance, police said. David Hough, 34, told Levon Reese, 29, to get out of the apartment...
HOLD CITY JOBS FOR VETS: POL
A new city proposal aims to give veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan more than just a parade. City Councilman Eric Gioia (D-Queens) is recommending a new program that would...
BAIL-JUMP LAW TAKES FLIGHT OUT OF CRIME
Bail jumpers, beware - Queens is no place to make a "Midnight Run." Every defendant who absconds in Queens faces a mandatory bail-jumping criminal charge that can carry up to...
'MAIN' STREET FLOODS
Residents of a posh Greenwich Village street yesterday found themselves bailing out after a 164-year-old water main burst, flooding the area and forcing the evacuation of scores of people. The...
TENANTS FLEE BUCKLING BROOKLYN HEIGHTS BUILDING
A Brooklyn Heights building on the verge of collapse was evacuated so an emergency crew could remove the top two floors before they toppled, witnesses said yesterday. Workers were rushed...
LOSS OF CRUISE CONTROL
So much for smooth sailing. A cruise ship packed with thousands of vacationers smashed into a West Side pier upon its return from the Bahamas yesterday, giving passengers and dock...
BUCCANEER BUST
Avast ye, Macy's! A rabble-rousing kickball player for a recreational team called the Pirates was busted yesterday for brandishing a swashbuckler's sword in the middle of Macy's Herald Square, cops...
'J'-TRAIN FOR RAIL VILLAINS
Authorities are out to derail scofflaw straphangers by swapping fines for jail time. Figures from the Transit Adjudication Bureau show a huge drop in summonses issued in the subway system...
AIR DELAYS COST CITY $5 BILLION
Flight delays aren't only causing headaches - they're hurting our wallets. "In 2007, New Yorkers took a $5 billion punch in the gut from flight delays," Sen. Charles Schumer said...
CAR ACCIDENTS KILL 2
Two people were killed in separate traffic accidents within an hour of each other in the Brooklyn and The Bronx yesterday. The driver of a car that struck and killed...
MISSING QUEENS TOT OK
A 3-year-old Queens boy was found unharmed yesterday after vanishing from an upstate campground and being lost for nearly 24 hours. With rescuers from three states scouring a nearby lake...
MEMORIAL DAY'S HOST OF PARADES
Whether you plan to pay tribute to the country's legions of war dead, spend quality time with your family, or just work on your tan, there are plenty of Memorial...
WINDOW KIDDIES' MIRACLE
A pair of Brooklyn tots miraculously survived a terrifying fall out of an apartment window yesterday, plunging three stories without even breaking a bone, officials said. Melvin Castelon, 5, and...
CITY LEAVING LEAVES BEHIND
You're not going to be-leaf this. At the same time that Mayor Bloomberg is stepping up his campaign to plant 1 million trees, the Sanitation Department plans to eliminate a...
SUMMER BUMMER
It's likely to be a long, hot summer for theme-park investors. With the housing market a mess, gas prices soaring and the cost of food prices hitting consumers in the...
CSX CASE CHALLENGES HEDGE FUNDS' SCAM
A looming decision in a heated lawsuit brought by railroad giant CSX Corp. could shut down a loophole used by activist hedge funds to hide their stake from the market....
THE DEAD WE HONOR
Memorial Day inspires mixed emotions: pride in the valor of those who gave their lives in the cause of freedom; sorrow that such self-sacrifice should have been necessary. The pride...
GOV TO NEED 2 WEEKS OFF AFTER NEXT EYE OP
GOV. PATERSON, who under went two surgeries for glaucoma last week, must have a third, more serious, operation, this time for a cataract in the lens of his blind left...
'CHE WHAT?' AT CANNES
BENICIO DEL TORO won the best-actor award at the Cannes Film Festival yesterday for his performance as Che Guevara - and promptly saluted the controversial Marxist hero, who was a...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Japan has solved its transit budget woes - it has a 9-year-old cat "working" as a stationmaster. Tama wears a conductor's uniform as she patrols the Kishi Station for the...
WHAT'S UP WITH THAT JOB?
What does a lapidary do all day? A lapidary cuts and polishes precious and semi-precious stones and gemstones from rough rock, crystals and stones. A lapidary may create cabochons, which...
ORDERS FROM ABOVE
THough they may not shout it to the heavens, almost one in three Americans believes in astrology - and many trust the supposed insights gleaned by studying the stars to...
GO TO GREG
Q: I graduated a year ago with a degree in Spanish language and literature and a minor in business management. I've looked everywhere for an entry-level position - banks, offices,...
10 THINGS TO DO ON MEMORIAL FUNDAY
FOR the poor souls stuck in Manhattan on Memorial Day, remember this: You're a New Yorker - suck it up and resort to plan B. Between shopping, movies and museum...
'RECOUNT' NOT '100 PERCENT'
THE director of last night's controversial HBO movie about the Florida election recount in 2000 says he worked hard to make it accurate - but "it wasn't 100 percent accurate."...
PAGING DR. ARCHULETA
'AMERICAN Idol" runner-up David Archuleta has a new goal in life now that the competition is over - getting back to school. "School is really important and it was my...
WAR OF THE POSES
THERE are two series debuting tonight that should be avoided this Memorial Day like sharks in the water. "Denise Richards: It's Complicated" and "Living Lohan" are reality shows based on...
'CHE WHAT?' AT CANNES
BENICIO DEL TORO won the best-actor award at the Cannes Film Festival yesterday for his performance as Che Guevara - and promptly saluted the controversial Marxist hero, who was a...
WANG: CALF NOT PROBLEM
Chien-Ming Wang insisted his right calf wasn't an issue, but he had no explanation for his uncharacteristic lack of control yesterday. The right-hander walked a season-high four batters, a big...
RALLY IN EIGHTH IS 'O' SO SWEEP
Out of the dumpster and back to respectability. The Yankees' Hillary Clinton-like free-fall seems over - a conclusion reached not only by results but the manner in which they are...
MATSUI'S ROLLER GREATEST OF E'S
There was a leadoff walk and a pair of doubles that looked like they were shot out of a cannon. But the key at-bat in the Yanks' decisive eighth inning...
A-ROD ROOT OF RECENT RUN
THE Mariners wound up flat on their faces, literally. J.J. Putz made a diving stop of Hideki Matsui's trickler and buried his nose in the grass after overthrowing Rich Sexson,...
ABREU HIT THE KEY TO BIG INNING
The moves made sense, at least in the lefty-vs.-lefty sense and then the get-a-six-out-save sense. Lefty hitting Bobby Abreu came to the plate for the Yankees, down three runs in...
HONDO WINS AGAIN!
Red-hot Hondo was rewarded for being an Ath letic supporter yesterday when his Post-No-Hitter- Letdown Theory worked beautifully against the Red Sawx to boost the earnings to 410 ditmars. Today,...
UH-OH! 'BIG' HURTS HOOF
Don't panic yet, racing fans, but Big Brown's Triple Crown coronation in the June 7 Belmont Stakes might hang in the balance. The hero of the Kentucky Derby and Preakness...
SPORTS SHORTS
BASEBALL: Glaus checks out of hospital Cardinals third baseman Troy Glaus was back in the lineup yesterday after a brief bout with stomach pains, which forced him out of a...
DUKE LACROSSE LEGACY LIVES ON DESPITE LOSS
The NCAA will crown a men's lacrosse champion today in what might be an anticlimactic championship game. Syracuse rallied from five goals down to upset Virginia in double overtime. Johns...
RESULTS WOOD NOT CHANGE FOR PREP
The sound of the game has changed, but the results are the same for head coach Robert Kent and his St. Francis Prep baseball team. Since instituting the use of...
CHICAGO BULL-IES NY
Yesterday, the Red Bulls responded to the biggest tilt of their year with one of the worst showings in their history. Suspended coach Juan Carlos Osorio - who stoked this...
HARD TO ARGUE IF MANAGER GETS CANNED
DENVER - The whole mess really started with a double-header last Tuesday, in Atlanta, an endless, fruitless day of toil at Turner Field that yielded two losses and a helluva...
WILLIE'S FATE IN WILPONS' HANDS
DENVER - After giving him a brief reprieve Saturday, the Mets put Willie Randolph's job right back in serious jeopardy yesterday. UPDATE: Willie Meets With Wilpons Fresh off a 4-1...
WRIGHT TAKES 5TH ON WILLIE SUPPORT
DENVER - David Wright was in no mood to lobby for Willie Randolph to keep his job when the manager meets with Met ownership today. Openly critical of the team's...
Rustich pitches again; Aceves shines in Trenton
A quick-hitter here, as we'll touch on two pitchers - one in the Mets system (this week's subject in Bushes, Brant Rustich) and the other for the Yankees (Alfredo Aceves)....
KATIE COURIC'S 'BIG' ANOUNCEMENT
ABC, CBS and NBC are teaming for "Stand Up To Cancer," a telethon that will be simulcast on all three networks Sept. 5 in prime time. It'll be hosted by...
TOTS SURVIVE 3-STORY FALL
A pair of Brooklyn tots miraculously survived a terrifying fall out of an apartment window today, plunging three stories without even breaking a bone, officials said. Melvin Castelon, 5, and...