September 23, 2008
REPORT: MINAYA TO GET CONTRACT EXTENSION
ESPN is reporting Omar Minaya will get a four-year extension on his contract, which is set to expire at the end of next season. The report says the deal is...
ESPN: Minaya getting extension
ESPN is reporting that Omar Minaya (pictured) is in line for a four-year contract extension that has been agreed upon but not formally announced. The report doesn't say when the...
Long Live Queen Serena
Luckily we don't have to wait long to get a sense of what's involved in this critical categorization. Blair, Nelly Yuki and the other HHags sit above new girls as...
Game 157: Cubs at Mets
The reeling Mets are counting on Johan Santana, as usual, to stop the bleeding tonight when they take on the Cubs in the second game of a four-game set at...
Deal of the Day-Built by Wendy
With all of the great pencil skirts, blazers and jackets, a gal needs some fun blouses. And this Dotted Ruffle Top from Built by Wendy fits the bill.Pair it with...
Oscar Watch: Clash of the Titans as Harvey, Rudin Tussle Over 'Reader'
Embattled indiemogul Harvey Weinstein, who could badly use an Oscar or two in February, let slip a few weeks ago that he was planning to open "The Reader'' in December...
Moore is Less: Right-Wing Spoof Skips Screenings as Genuine Article Gives Away Self-Promoting Doc
Born-again conservative David Zucker's "An American Carol,'' a spoof of "A Christmas Carol'' with Uncle Sam straightening out a "Michael Moore type'' on the 4th of July, is so good...
Kiki Speaksâ¦For a Long Time
By FRED KERBERWith training camp approaching the Nets did their annual âbring an exec to the media roomâ today and general manager Kiki Vandeweghe addressed any and all issues about...
While Lauren's Away, the Mice Play
Heidi, Lo, Audrina and Stephanie stir up trouble while Lauren travels to Italy At some point after Lauren's departure, She-Pratt arrives at the Sorority House. "Um, Lauren's not here," says...
LOHAN CONFIRMS LESBIAN RELATIONSHIP
Actress Lindsay Lohan confirmed simmering rumors about her relationship with gal pal DJ Samantha Ronson during a call in to L.A. radio show "Loveline" last night. Rumors of their relationship...
WHAT'S UP: NFC
The three best teams in the NFC may all be from the same division. The NFC East has two 3-0 teams and two 2-1 teams. The only losses have come...
WHAT'S UP: AFC
The Patriots were able to overcome the loss of Tom Brady for the first two weeks of the season, but were embarrassed by the Dolphins at home on Sunday. Dolphins...
BARCLAYS FLASHES SIGN AT LEHMAN BUILDING
At least a few lucky Lehman Brothers people are assured they'll still have a job keeping the lights flashing on the Times Square building once called the firm's headquarters. The...
DVD Extra: 'Martini Movies' With A Kick
Today in The Post, I look at "Martini Movies'' -- an interesting attempt by Sony to market "hip'' older films that don't fit into any convenient genre. The first five...
CASHMAN AWAITS STEINBRENNER'S CALL
Hal Steinbrenner wants to know what Brian Cashman is thinking soon. And if Cashman decides his time in The Bronx is done, Steinbrenner needs to find a new GM. Steinbrenner...
Coverage in today's Post
History continued to repeat itself Monday night as the Mets dropped a 9-5 decision to the Cubs that put Jerry Manuel's club 2 1/2 games behind the Phillies in the...
Ticket Hike ... and For What, Exactly?
Since hockey returned from the lockout, I made it a point of going to as many games as possible. Me and a buddy from work would walk over to the...
Another must-win for Johan
From JOEL SHERMANIt feels as if every Johan Santana start for a long time now has included the phrase "the Mets acquired him for just this kind of game." And...
3 UP: Reeling Mets, Santana and Delgado
1. This was a point I made in my column today and I think is worth reasserting here: Last year was a horrible, historic collapse for the Mets, but at...
LIVEBLOG: Where the players are
Multiple friends whoâve been to Las Vegas recently have come back muttering that the poker rooms there are sucking wind, with a surprising lack of high-stakes games even in the...
UPDATE: Stuff to know
Hungry? Check out today's feature by our colleague Carla Spartos on the food coming to the new Terminal 5 at JFK when it opens next week. By and large, the...
FEDS RAID TENN. APT. OF SARAH'S 'NET 'HACKER'
FBI agents swooped down on the party pad of a 20-year-old University of Tennessee economics student - and son of a Democratic lawmaker - who allegedly hacked into the personal...
MAC'S TRILLION WORRIES
John McCain suggested yesterday he might oppose the nearly $1 trillion taxpayer bailout of Wall Street unless there is strict oversight of how the money is spent. McCain said the...
PALIN MEETS HAMID KARZAI DURING FOREIGN RELATIONS CRASH COURSE
Sarah Palin met today with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, the first world leader on her agenda during a four-day tour of New York City. Palin will then meet with Colombian...
VEEP SLOT NO BIG THRILL FOR HILL, BUBBA SAYS
She signaled privately that she was open to the job, but Hillary Rodham Clinton was never really itching to be Barack Obama's No. 2 on the Democratic ticket, Bill Clinton...
TIMES IS IN O'S POCKET: TEAM MAC
John McCain's campaign yesterday accused The New York Times of being "a pro-Obama advocacy organization." "Whatever The New York Times once was, it is today, not by any standard, a...
WHEN THE GIRL NEXT DOOR SHOOTS FOR WASHINGTON
Once again, as on so many occasions, Ralph Peters hits the nail right on the proverbial head ("Our Sister Sarah," PostOpinion, Sept. 20). Peters makes a valid point in stating...
NYC'S DEBT DISASTER
NEW York City's acute de pendence on debt may soon become all too clear. The problem isn't merely the city's dependence on all of that now-failed debt that Wall Street...
A FURIOUS FLUSTER
"The queen had only one way of settling all difficulties, great or small. 'Off with his head!' she said without even looking around." - "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" UNDER the...
DEMOCRATS' RIDICULOUS SCAPEGOAT
WHO'S responsible for the panic of 2008? In the gathering legend, it's one man, former Sen. Phil Gramm, the ex-John McCain adviser who lamented "a nation of whiners" a few...
FACING OUR WALL STREET ADDICTION
WITH the financial sector in cardiac arrest - and likely to remain sickly for years to come - New York City and state are in jeopardy. How did we become...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Mon.: 211; Lucky Sum: 4 / Midday Win-4 Mon.: 5894; Lucky Sum: 26 / Evening Nos. Mon.: 764; Lucky Sum: 17 / Evening Win-4 Mon.: 4119;...
FIDDLING AS ROME BURNS
Stressing that the "whole world is watching," President Bush yesterday demanded that Congress quickly pass a massive $700 billion mortgage bailout package - even as Democrats unveiled a slew of...
JUICE SHOT DOWN
A turncoat pal of O.J. Simpson's sacked the defense yesterday, saying for the first time that the Juice knew guns were used to rob two sports-memorabilia dealers last year. The...
SCREAMS FROM JET-CRASH STAR
A critically injured Travis Barker pleaded for help as rescuers reached him after a deadly plane crash, according to a broadcast report yesterday. WOLO-TV in Columbia, SC, aired stunning footage...
MICROSOFT USES MACS
Microsoft admitted yesterday that its high-profile new ad campaign to keep users from switching to Macs was made using its competitor's computers and software. Red-faced execs said in a statement,...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Brooklyn A young woman was found stabbed to death in her Flatlands home, sources said yesterday. Andrea Francis, 22, was discovered in the bathtub of her Flatbush Avenue apartment just...
9/11 'HERO' RIPPED OFF FUND: FEDS
A decorated Navy commander honored for his 9/11 heroism at the Pentagon is now accused of profiting from the tragedy by inventing injuries he claimed left him unable to work...
DAN'S BAD NEWS DAY
Dan Rather's $70 million lawsuit against CBS is getting whittled down like a redwood at an Alabama beaver party. A Manhattan judge yesterday threw out two more of Rather's claims...
MTA TO BILL RESCUERS
The MTA took a step closer to approving a controversial plan to bill the city for police, firefighters and other emergency-service responders crossing bridges and tunnels. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority's...
VILLAGE, CHELSEA 'BURGLAR' BUSTED AFTER 11 HEISTS
A crafty drifter launched a one-man crime wave on posh pads in Chelsea and the West Village, knocking off 11 before being nabbed, authorities said yesterday. The suspect, Michael Legg,...
CAUGHT STEALING AT THE STADIUM
Twenty fans were busted trying to land five-fingered discounts at Sunday night's Yankee Stadium finale, but that did little to deter a new group of chiselers from taking their crack...
'SCAM'-TOM OF THE OPERA STAGE IS SET
An opera-loving money manager who allegedly skimmed millions from his clients to pay for his big-bucks charitable donations could face the music this week when he goes on trial in...
THIEF ADMITS SEX FAIRY TALE
A woman who sued her financial-firm CEO boss - accusing him of turning her into his sexual gofer - admitted yesterday that she made up the salacious tale to draw...
$400 TAX REBATES LIVE ON
Even if property taxes are increased in January, as now seems certain, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday he'd soften the blow for small homeowners by continuing a $400-a-year rebate exclusively for...
'DJ-BASHER' DUO GIVE UP
Two Bronx robbers suspected of beating a Boston-area talk-show host with a baseball bat surrendered yesterday as their victim underwent surgery to save his right eye. Gavin Scott was the...
ATT'Y TAKES A SWIPE AT CAT KILLER
Mee-ow! The assistant DA in a bizarre "self-defense" cat-bludgeoning trial sunk her prosecutorial claws into tabby terminator Joseph Petcka yesterday, calling him not only a liar, but a loser. "He...
NYERS THROUGH AND THROUGH
What's born in New York stays in New York. The Empire State placed second in a new Census Bureau survey that shows which states managed to keep their natives from...
GULLIBLE GAL $PIRITED OFF BY 'PSYCHIC'
A self-professed psychic trolling the Upper West Side for victims managed to dupe a Manhattan woman out of more than $100,000 in cash and jewels by convincing her she needed...
FELKER'S MEMORY HONORED
Friends and colleagues remembered legendary New York magazine founder Clay Felker last night as an iconic New Yorker who guided the careers of many brilliant journalists. "He never just said...
B'KLYN LICKING ITS CHOPS OVER TRADER JOE'S
Workers yesterday were putting the final touches on transforming a landmark former bank building in Brooklyn into the Big Apple's largest Trader Joe's supermarket. The historic facade of the ex-Independence...
'JACK OF ALL FRAUDS' NABBED IN 'BOGUS' WEB BIZ
A Harlem man ran a one-stop Internet shop that sold a dazzling array of illicit items - from counterfeit currency and phony checks to bogus term papers, prosecutors said yesterday....
CARLA 'KOZY IN NYC
Foxy French First Lady Carla Bruni was the belle of the Big Apple yesterday. The stunning ex-model, in New York with president hubby Nicolas Sarkozy for the opening session of...
'SWIPE' OF HOMER BALL IS NOT FAIR: YANKS FAN
A Bronx schoolteacher is crying foul over a security guard's decision to take the coveted, final Yankee Stadium home-run ball from his mitt and give it to another fan who...
VITO IS ONE STEP CLOSER TO A RERUN
Republican Robert Straniere, who's running for Rep. Vito Fossella's seat, was nominated as a Manhattan judicial candidate last night - a move that could pave the way for the disgraced...
ROCKET'S SAD STARE
Estranged former Yankee Roger Clemens was "heartbroken" when his former team left him out of Sunday night's Stadium-farewell festivities, which included a video montage honoring the Bronx Bombers' greatest pitchers...
BENCH STRENGTH
JEANINE PIRRO has zero tolerance for breast-biters. She said so yesterday afternoon, in no uncertain terms, in the debut episode of her new daytime court show on WPIX/Channel 11. "No...
TAXMAN AFTER PIZZA GUYS TO RAISE DOUGH
ALBANY - Watch out, pizza dude, the taxman's coming for his slice of the pie. Revenue-strapped tax officials are turning up the heat on pizzerias, used-car dealers and other cash-heavy...
NY'S 'WEALTH' OF POLS
WASHINGTON - Rep. Carolyn Maloney, worth at least $19 million, is New York's wealthiest lawmaker, according to a Washington newspaper's analysis of personal finance records released yesterday. Maloney's big bucks,...
APPLE'S BEST SHINE BRIGHT
A violin virtuoso, an AIDS researcher and a sculptor who uses drinking straws and Styrofoam cups are among the eight Big Apple winners of this year's MacArthur Foundation "genius grants."...
DURST EYES CONDE NAST STAYING
HOPING to turn the current financial chaos to its long-term advantage, the Durst Organization has "reached out" to media giant Condé Nast "with a proposal to stay" in its present...
LACOSTE TAPS NEW CEO
Lacoste, famous for the crocodile logo on its sports apparel, has tapped as its next US-based CEO Robert Skinner, the former head of apparel maker Kellwood, sources told The Post....
A YAWN GREETS BANKS
Morgan Stanley's and Goldman Sachs' stunning move to alter their once-vaunted banking models by transforming themselves into bank holding companies was met with little enthusiasm on Wall Street. Though the...
'SHORT' ATTACK MAY SPUR HEDGE FUNDS TO SUE
As the Securities and Exchange Commission continues its assault on short sellers, hedge funds are discussing legal action to challenge Chairman Chris Cox's recent moves - just as funds in...
YAHOO! UNVEILS ONLINE AD HELP
Hoping to quell concerns about a proposed partnership with Google, Yahoo! announced yesterday it would appoint a council of outside ad execs to advise the company on online issues. The...
TIME FOCUSES NEW LIFE ON ITS VENERABLE TITLE
The Life name is getting a new lease on life. After having shut down three times as a magazine, the Life title is being resurrected as part of a joint...
THQ CEO HOPES 'DE BLOB' PROVES TO BE DA BOMB
Developing original hits for the Wii video game console has proved elusive for virtually every publisher not named Nintendo, but THQ Inc. CEO Brian Farrell is looking to change all...
WAMU COURTING BUYERS
Washington Mutual continued discussions with several potential bidders yesterday as the nation's largest savings and loan works to find a solution to a looming cash crunch, according to sources familiar...
CAN'T BANK ON IT
After proudly saying "no" to junk mortgage greed, America's small-town banks are now getting creamed by Uncle Sam's bailout of the financial system. Almost every publicly traded regional bank tumbled...
PAULSON AND BERNANKE AND THEIR 'BAD BANK' FOLLY
TODAY I'd like to introduce you to Bad John. He's the guy in the Crudele family who spends all the money. He owes the electric company, the cable provider and...
LESS TALK, MORE WALK
Enough talk. It's time for action. It's time for Gov. Paterson to move forcefully to blunt the fiscal calamity that he's been warning about ever since taking office. Or was...
CONGRESS' KILLER STALL
Time's a-wastin', President Bush yesterday warned Congress - which appears to be in no hurry to pass Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's $700 billion economic bailout. And, to underscore the point,...
WHAT RANGEL SMELLS
Charlie Rangel smells something funny. At the African-American Day Pa rade this weekend, he scoffed at the notion that his personal financial woes have impaired his ability to run the...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A British tycoon fled his $7 million, 52-room mansion in Nottinghamshire, claiming he had unwanted guests - ghosts. Anwar Rashid, 32, said the place was infested with the apparitions, which...
SANDWICHES - OUR FAVORITE ON-THE-GO MEAL
You probably eat plenty of these for lunch during the school year. Here's a look at one of our favorite midday treats. We all love sandwiches. Our favorite yummy filling...
PSYCH OUT
SERIAL killers are so common on television that you can't swing a dead cat without hitting one. Forgive me, animal lovers, but I happen to love the phrase, "You can't...
YANKS' HOUSE PARTY
THE final game at Yankee Stadium was a walk-off homer for TV. The game drew three times the usual audience for ESPN's Sunday-night baseball telecast, which averages about 2 million...
ELECTION COMEDY
ELECTION-night coverage just got a little funnier. Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert ("The Colbert Report") and Jon Stewart ("The Daily Show") will host specials on election night (Nov. 4) beginning at...
MORNING AFTER
THE stars of TV stumbled back to work yesterday - after a three-hour Emmy telecast and a night of partying. Sure, it was the biggest night of Tina Fey's life...
MAHER: I WANT OBAMA
COMIC Bill Maher wants to know why Bill O'Reilly can interview Barack Obama but he can't. Obama recently sat for an interview with the persnickety Fox News Channel talk show...
'NANNY FOR YOUR BAD DOG
NAUGHTY dogs of America beware - the makers of "Supernanny" want to throw you a bone. "It's Me or the Dog" is a new reality show in development for an...
SWEET TART SINGER PUCKERS UP
LENKA, the pretty Australian singer, doesn't say she's 30 years old. Instead, she says, "I'm not as young as I look, and I'm wiser than you think." She's right. Lenka...
ANY TIME IS T'S TIME
IT'S easy to lump the Plain White T's in with all the other pop-punk bands littering the music scene. After all, they're familiar faces on the Warped Tour circuit. Their...
ROCK HALL ANNOUNCES '09 NOMINEES
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame can't nominate Madonna again (she got in last year), so it had to settle on Jeff Beck, Chic, Wanda Jackson, Little Anthony and...
MPFREES
Plain White T's, "Natural Disaster" Loosely based on real life experiences, the catchy single takes a skeptical look at girls who cozy up to famous guys. Lenka, "The Show" This...
THIRST-QUENCHING MOVIES
DRINK recipes are included with "Martini Movies," a new DVD series of vintage movies disinterred by Sony from the Columbia Pictures vaults. They'll leave you stirred, if not shaken. The...
HEROINE OF THE HIDDEN IS REDISCOVERED
IF you thought there are no new Holocaust sto ries yet to be told, think again. "Irena's Vow," Dan Gordon's play starring Tovah Feldshuh that opened last night, relates a...
BITES OF FANCY
THIS season, the most exclusive restaurant openings aren't in the Meatpacking District - they're in domestic departures at JFK. After all, you need more than a reservation - you need...
JENKINS NEEDED 'BACK' ON 'D' LINE
SAN DIEGO - The night started out pretty well defensively for the Jets, who weren't giving Chargers prolific running back LaDainian Tomlinson anything. Then the Jets lost starting nose tackle...
BATTERED BY BOLTS, JETS QB LOOKS HIS AGE
SAN DIEGO - Brett Favre has had a lot of magical memories on "Monday Night Football." Last night, Favre's 24th appearance on the iconic NFL showcase, was not one of...
BRETT'S LOW POINT? TAKE YOUR 'PICK'
HE was brought here amidst Empire State-sized fanfare, the Win Now quarterback joining the Win Now team. He was brought here to learn a new offense, learn about his new...
ZACH, DEVS ARE RIGHT ON THE MONEY
PHILADELPHIA - Still two seasons from the sort of salary his performance commands, Zach Parise resists grousing about being the league's lowest-paid team leading scorer among non-capped vets. "It's hard...
YANKS NOT RULING OUT GIAMBI RETURN
Early yesterday morning Jason Giambi stood in the middle of the clubhouse and understood there was a chance he had played his final game at Yankee Stadium and in pinstripes....
GIANTS REPORT CARD
QUARTERBACKS: A Not once, but twice, Eli Manning (26 of 43, 289 yards, 1 TD) led his club down the field for a late game-winning drive. A few shaky throws...
FOR GIANTS, EARLY BYE PAUSE FOR CONCERN
A player wants his body to tell him when he needs a bye week, but that's not the case with the Giants. "Roger Goodell tells us when we get a...
AHMAD'S NOT 'TOUCHY' OVER LIGHT WORKLOAD
Coming off a sensational performance in which he scored two touchdowns in the fourth quarter of last week's victory in St. Louis, it figured that Ahmad Bradshaw would get the...
LUNDQVIST COPING WITH SHAKY KNEES
The condition of Henrik Lundqvist's knees was apparently lost in translation when a Swedish newspaper reported that the goaltender is taking weekly cortisone shots to deal with lingering pain from...
SPORTS SHORTS
WNBA: Libs advance Rookie Essence Carson scored 15 points as the Liberty advanced to the Eastern Conference finals with a 66-62 win over the Connecticut Sun last night in Uncasville,...
PHILS ADD TO LEAD
PHILADELPHIA - Citizens Bank Park had an eerie feeling of déjà vu last night. As the out-of-town scoreboard showed the Mets imploding two hours north of here, the Phillies found...
IT'S TWO-FER HONDO
The Cubs added to the Metamucils' misery out at the Lame Duck Dump last night, which enabled Hondo to increase his collection of disposable dead presidents to a delightful 700...
AZINGER DESERVES 2010 CURTAIN CALL
LOUISVILLE - When someone asked Paul Azinger late Sunday night if he would consider returning as the U.S. captain for the 2010 Ryder Cup in Wales, Justin Leonard and just...
MARQUIS GRAND SLAM PUTS METS BACK ON BRINK
Welcome to The Fall. The season arrived yesterday at 11:44 a.m., hours before the Mets again did their best to assure fans this could be a replay of The Fall,...
RELIEF! RIGHTY MAY BE BACK SOON
John Maine's season could be ready to resume. The right-hander satisfied the Mets enough in a simulated game yesterday that interim manager Jerry Manuel later indicated Maine could be activated...
AMAZIN' SHEA MEMORIES
The countdown is winding down to the last regular season game at Shea Stadium, Sunday afternoon against the Marlins, as the Mets continue to battle the Phillies and the Brewers...
BELTRAN BATTERED IN LOSS
A bruised rib and a hurt knee nearly knocked Carlos Beltran out of last night's game. It also might be something that's an issue tonight. In the seventh inning of...
SEQUEL WOULD BE TWO MUCH TO TAKE
UNACCEPTABLE. This cannot happen again. The Mets now have six games remaining to prevent a second straight collapse. But so much more is at stake now than simply the infamy...
LET'S DEAL
You're a big poker player. Where are your favorite places to play? I like to go to a lot of the televised poker tournaments. My brother Chris and I play...
PEEP SHOW
FALL is here - how are you going to color your world this year? Here are a few good ideas.1) TAKE A HIKE Schoharie County The Catskills are great, but...
WHAT, NO JACUZZI?
IS ROMANCE dead? And by romance, of course, I mean the following: heart-shaped tubs, circular beds and strategically placed mirrors. I have heard that this sort of thing still exists...
HOT DEALS
* SAN DIEGO $189 per night plus a $50 food credit at the Hotel Solamar for stays Sept. 16-Dec. 31. Book by Sept. 30, use code EM0 (hotelsolamar.com). * HAWAII...
NEWS + NOTES
GO SHORTY: IT'S your birthday -- next year, make it pay. All 2009 long, Disney is offering a free day at one of its parks to anyone celebrating their DOB....