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July 2, 2008

Zero Punctuation Throws Down With Ctrl+Alt+Del

And all of gaming webcomic-dom, really.(Not for kids, NSFW-ish, of course, as with ALL Zero Punctuations)

Pitching ready for Phillies series

The pitching matchups are mostly set for this weekend's pivotal, four-game NL East series with the rival Phillies at Citizens Bank Park (pictured). The only holdup is Friday's opener, which...

Shelley Duncan may be done

By MIKE PUMAShelley Duncan's season could be finished after he sustained a separated right shoulder while diving for a ball in the outfield Tuesday night for Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre."We're trying to...

Islanders sign Doug Weight

The Islanders have agreed to a one-year contract with four-time NHL All-Star center Doug Weight. A Stanley Cup champion with Carolina in 2005-06 and Olympic Silver Medalist with the United...

Changes by way of Columbus

By BRETT CYRGALISMore moves today for what is now the ever-changing face of the New York Rangers.The Rangers sent defenseman Fedor Tytuin and Christian Backman to Columbus for forwards Nikolai...

A-ROD'S WIFE LINKED TO LENNY KRAVITZ

He's out at home! Yankee superstar Alex Rodriguez's marriage is kaput, sources told The Post. A-Rod's wife, Cynthia, has been shacked up with rocker Lenny Kravitz in Paris. The couple's...

Game 84: Mets at Cardinals

The lineups are ready as the Mets try to keep the good feelings from Tuesday’s 7-4 win over the Cardinals going here tonight behind Pedro Martinez. This is a big...

Alou return delayed again

We know, big shocker: Moises Alou's return to the Mets has been pushed back a couple of days. This time, though, it isn't because of Alou's brittle body. Relentless rain...

Zhredev coming in Columbus trade

APThe Rangers have acquired enigmatic offensive star Nikolai Zherdev and center Dan Fritsche from the Columbus Blue Jackets for defensemen Christian Backman and Fedor Tyutin.Zherdev gives the Rangers one of...

What is Karl Lagerfeld wearing?

Hawking road safety.[Via David Hellqvist]

Lopez, Anderson sign

APThe Nets have signed their two first-round draft picks, Brook Lopez and Ryan Anderson.The Nets selected Lopez with their top pick at No. 10. He led Stanford in scoring at...

Favre considers comeback

APBrett Favre is considering coming out retirement, according to an ESPN report.ESPN’s Chris Mortensen says a Green Bay Packers source told him the 38-year-old Favre told coach Mike McCarthy in...

Penguins give Malkin five years

APThe Penguins signed Evegni Malkin to a five-year extension today, a deal that will keep him under contract until the 2013-14 season. The 21-year-old forward still has one year left...

Harvey Weinstein Owes Me A Call -- Me and Lots of Other People

A while back, a flack promised me a call from Harvey Weinstein to discuss "The Miriam Collection,'' a series of classic film DVDs named after his mother. That was in...

Scene-NYC streets

Tara Santangelo, an advertising creative, wears a linen, denim-colored dress with pocket details from Big Drop with a cool waist-cinch belt by BCBG, a Barney's bag and Stuart Weitzman shoes."I...

DEALS: $1,776 RT biz to London

We're in a celebratory mood over here, Fourth-wise, which means we're scattered to the, er, four winds until next Monday. Apparently, British Airways is in the mood to party as...

Toronto: Mike, Spike, Viggo and Malkovich! Malkovich!

Also on the list of special presentations released today: Kathryn Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker,'' a thriller about an explosives squad starring Ralph Fiennes and Guy Pearce; Vicente Amorim's German marital...

And the Plan Is. . . . ?

BY JAY GREENBERGWade Redden, says Glen Sather, is the best in the business at moving the puck up to the forwards, which sounds like a plan if the Rangers had...

HANK: 'IT'S GETTING RIDICULOUS'

TAMPA, Fla. - With Alex Rodriguez's budding friendship with Madonna making headlines, Yankees owner Hank Steinbrenner is hinting that "outside distractions" are causing the team's offense to break his heart....

'Friends' takes 'Sex and the City' avenue

Courtney Cox - eager to get back on any screen after the cancellation of "Dirt" - has everyone on board, except for her real-life best "Friend" Jennifer Aniston, reports Showbiz...

'Jets Night' reset for July 8

"Jets Night at Shea" has been rescheduled for next Tuesday, July 8, when the Mets play host to San Francisco. Jets Night was originally scheduled for April 28 but postponed...

BRENDA WANTS HER ZIP CODE BACK

BAD news Brenda may be heading back to "90210." Picasso-faced Playboy pin-up Shannen Doherty, who was dumped in 1994 from her career-making stint as "Beverly Hills 90210" brat Brenda Walsh...

AVERY SIGNS WITH STARS

The Rangers are parting ways with Sean Avery, a free agent forward who today signed with the Dallas Stars. Avery was given a four-year deal worth $15.5 million. "We are...

Coverage in today's Post

Thanks to a variety of moves by the pictured Jerry Manuel, almost all of which paid off handsomely, the Mets bounced back with a 7-4 road decision over the Cardinals...

CHRISTIE BRINKLEY'S DIVORCE TRIAL GETS UNDER WAY

The other woman - a barely legal doe-eyed beauty - at the center of the sensational Christie Brinkley divorce trial in Long Island admitted she freely hopped in the sack...

If There's A Will, There's A Way to Channel Kael and Praise 'Hancock'

Pity the poor older reader of the New Yorker who rushes to see "Hancock'' based on the recommendation of David Denby who astoundingly asserts that the chemistry scenes between Will...

TATUM O'NEAL PLEADS GUILTY AFTER DRUG ARREST

Actress Tatum O'Neal pleaded guilty today to disorderly conduct in connection with her June cocaine possession arrest in lower Manhattan. Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Elisa Koenderman sentenced O'Neal to a...

Blu-ray Drives Special Editions

Digital Bits also has the cover art for a new set of the "Godfather'' trilogy coming Sept. 26 on DVD and Blu-ray. It includes full-scale restorations of the first two...

You Cruise You Lose

Poor Katie Holmes, whose pregnancy allowed her to escape being humiliated by bad reviews again if she reprised her role in "The Dark Knight'' (she was replaced by Maggie Gylenhaal)...

Dueling Sherlocks

Sacha Baron Cohen and Will Ferrell will star in a Judd Apatow-produced Sherlock Holmes comedy written by Etan Cohen ("Tropic Thunder'') Variety reports today. That puts it up against a...

3 UP: Melky, Girardi and Church

1. The Yankees had hoped that Melky Cabrera would grow toward Bernie Williams. But the reality is that Cabrera is making a beeline toward Gerald Williams. Like Gerald, he brandished...

WILL THE REAL OBAMA PLEASE STAND UP?

THE ISSUE: Presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama's record of flip-flopping on issues. When Sen. Barack Obama chose "Change You Can Believe In" as his campaign slogan, I thought he was...

PAKISTAN'S RISING ISLAMIST TIDE

FOR a misery junkie, Pakistan's got it all: gruesome Islamist terror; a phony democracy drowning in corruption; wretched poverty and obscene stolen wealth; a terrified army - and nukes. Last...

A TIGER OF A TAX

WHEN Tiger Woods collected his $1,350,000 check for winning the US Open golf championship last month, his federal and California taxes approximated $586,000. So, Tiger got to keep about $764,000,...

PLUGGING THE PATRIOTISM GAP

Barack Obama yesterday kicked off a week of patriotic speeches. It's much more than the normal politician's July 4 oration - it's Obama's answer to a crucial test. After all,...

RESCUING ROCKAWAY

THE city may at long last soon start repairing some of the decades of harm it's inflicted on the Rockaways. A six-mile-long section of the 11-mile peninsula jutting out from...

LOTTERY

NEW YORK Midday Nos. Tue.: 980; Lucky Sum: 17 / Midday Win-4 Tue.: 9581; Lucky Sum: 23 / Evening Nos. Tue: 009; Lucky Sum: 9 / Evening Win-4 Tue.: 3279;...

JOLIE-POLY STAR DELIVERS SELF TO HOSPITAL

Angelina Jolie checked into a French hospital yesterday, fueling speculation she's close to giving birth to her twins. A spokeswoman for Lenval Hospital in Nice - just a few miles...

BARACK MEETS WITH POWELL

Presumptive Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama had a private sitdown with retired Gen. Colin Powell, a former top Bush administration official. The two met on June 18 for an hour...

CLARK STEPS UP WAR ON MAC

Retired Gen. Wesley Clark slammed former Vietnam POW John McCain's judgment yesterday, again questioning the war hero's military credentials, while claiming he was operating on his own and not at...

SAY IT AIN'T JOE! 'BUCKS TO SHUT 600

Starbucks - ground down by the competition and its own obsessive thirst for expansion - is shutting 600 stores in the next year, presumably including some of its newest Manhattan...

'LEFT' IN THE DUST

WASHINGTON - Barack Obama's recent rightward lurch on key issues is causing a revolt among left-wing bloggers and activists, who had been his earliest and most ardent supporters. "Obama's not...

BEER SALES 4TH-COMING

Here's what's on tap for many Americans marking the July 4th holiday weekend: barbecues and brewskis. Last year, Independence Day became the biggest beer-selling holiday of the year - with...

'COOL' SCHOOL'S FLOOD-ZONE AID

Students at the Technical Career Institute are sending a 47-foot truck full of air-conditioning supplies and technicians to flood-ravaged Iowa. The school has teamed up with the Truckers and Citizens...

NYPD DAILY BLOTTER

The Bronx For unknown reasons, Shamir Woodson, 21, struck Norman Brown, 26, in the head on Dawson Street near East 156th Street at 1:50 p.m. on June 19. The victim...

GRANDMA NAILS 250G 'HS THIEF'

A 16-year-old boy was charged with stealing about $250,000 worth of computers and accessories from a Catholic school in Brooklyn yesterday - after his own grandmother turned him in. Dante...

MADGE'S BASE BAWL

Now that's a squeeze play! Madonna yesterday strongly denied reports that she and Yankees superstar Alex Rodriguez have been cozying up at the unhappily married Material Mom's Upper West Side...

$19M HIT FOR TRAGIC BIRTH

A Queens jury awarded a couple $19.6 million in their lawsuit against St. Vincent's Hospital, following the "botched" delivery of their baby boy, who now has cerebral palsy, the family's...

MIRACLE SAVE AMID BLAZE TRAGEDY

Eleven family members were trapped in a horrific Brooklyn fire early yesterday that critically injured three children and an adult and forced a desperate grandfather to toss two kids out...

MORE CITY SCHOOLS MAKING THE GRADE

By almost every measure, students, teachers and parents rated their schools more favorably this year than last year on the Department of Education's second mammoth survey of the public school...

EX-JUDGE GIVEN A SLAP ON WRIST

Disgraced former Judge Michael Garson avoided jail yesterday for possessing a bogus power-of-attorney giving him control over an elderly aunt's assets. Brooklyn prosecutors allowed him to plead guilty to a...

'SPITE' BITE BY TROOPER

A state trooper took road rage to a whole new level - writing up five phony traffic tickets to a Brooklyn man as payback after getting into a heated argument...

GOLISANO EYES $$ PUSH FOR A DEM SENATE

ALBANY - The state's political world was abuzz yesterday with speculation that Rochester bil lionaire and three-time gubernato rial candidate Tom Golisano was about to spend millions to break the...

JUDGE RAPS JAY-Z CLUB IN LAWSUIT

A Manhattan judge has paved the way for a class-action lawsuit against rapper Jay-Z and his nightclub 40/40, ordering brass to fork over the names of all employees over the...

RICH BITCH OF A DONATION

She herself was frequently described as one - which may be why Leona Helmsley ordered that her charitable trust donate all its billions to bitches. On top of bequeathing $12...

LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON

Tycoon tot Barron Trump yesterday followed in his daddy's footsteps - he had a bad heir day. The adorable 2-year-old's wavy locks got tousled by a gust of wind as...

'EATEN ALIVE'

Two pit bulls mauled a 90-year-old Staten Island man yesterday, leaving him with at least one amputated leg, authorities said. Henry Piotrowski was walking in front of his house at...

'SEND THUG BACK TO NY'

US officials yesterday demanded the Serbian government hand over a thuggish college basketball player hiding in his native country to avoid charges that he beat a Brooklyn-born classmate into a...

CHRISTIE'S MUD BATH

It's gonna get ugly. Christie Brinkley will be forced today to stare into the eyes of the young woman who helped end what appeared to be a fairy-tale marriage as...

SUICIDE TRY OVER TOT SLAY

A Brooklyn woman accused of killing the 3-year-old boy she cared for tried to kill herself after the tot died, according her boyfriend's statement to cops. In court papers made...

SPITZ'S GUY: 'I'M NO ROGUE'

Here are excerpts from the never-before-revealed sworn testimony of former Gov. Eliot Spitzer's communications director, Darren Dopp, who repeatedly told the State Ethics Commission last fall that Spitzer and his...

NEW CONTENDER FOR FOSSELLA SEAT

An ex-Staten Island GOP lawmaker is seeking to replace scandal-scarred Vito Fossella as his district's next congressman. Former state Assemblyman Bob Straniere began circulating petitions yesterday to get on the...

NEW CITY TAX HIKES HIT HOME

The average city homeowner's property tax is increasing $171 this year, with a much higher jump in Manhattan and a smaller one in The Bronx, according to data obtained by...

SHAKEUP AT 'IGNORE THE DYING' HOSP

City health officials yesterday vowed to institute new reforms - including checks on waiting-room patients every 15 minutes - at troubled Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, where staff ignored a...

PAPA'S TIES TO SINISTER SLOBBO

The Serbian fugitive hiding in his homeland to avoid prosecution for beating a Brooklyn student has a prominent family with powerful allies in the country's government, sources say. Miladin Kovacevic's...

WTC FIASCO'S BLAME GAME

The finger-pointing over construction delays at Ground Zero was in high gear yesterday after the Port Authority's decision to scrap its latest timetable for the beleaguered project. The chief target...

MANHATTAN HIGH ROLLERS' HIGH-RI$E HEAVEN

As housing values in the rest of the country plummet, Manhattan real-estate continues to soar - thanks to a shortage of apartments only multimillionaires can afford. Prices for condos and...

'BOGUS BADGE' BOUNTY HUNTERS BUSTED

Two operators of a bounty-hunter training school were busted yesterday for doling out phony badges to students, many of whom have lengthy rap sheets and used the credentials in carrying...

SAD WRITINGS OF SUICIDE MODEL

Investigators probing the suicide of a Kazakh supermodel said she left depressed musings on her home computer, police sources said yesterday. Though investigators found no suicide note, catwalker Ruslana Korshunova...

DOC'S FINAL ANGST

A Manhattan doctor who plunged 17 stories to his death had just finished a dreaded meeting with his boss and mentor - who'd recently called him a "traitor" for taking...

9/11 ILLNESSES 'GET WORSE'

Of 10,000 Ground Zero workers suing the city, medical records show 67 percent suffer respiratory ailments and 45 percent have a gastrointestinal disease, their lawyers claim. The numbers, filed in...

THOMPSON 'GUNS' FOR NYPD

City Comptroller William Thompson fired a broadside yesterday at the NYPD, charging that "an alarming number" of guns seized in crimes have gone AWOL because of sloppy record-keeping by the...

ANHEUSER-BUSCH WON'T GROUND EXEC JETS

Anheuser-Busch may be trying to cut costs to fend off rival InBev's $46 billion takeover offer, but it still plans to keep its fleet of executive jets and corporate helicopters....

NEW YORK'S FELKER DEAD

Clay Felker, the legendary magazine editor who defined New York's state of mind long before Billy Joel did, died yesterday at the age of 82. A magazine-editing titan at a...

COLOR HIM GREEN

Dick Grasso is officially $190 million richer today, and says he holds "no malice" against former nemesis Eliot Spitzer for trying to strip him of the cash. Grasso's generous words...

THREE-HEADED MONSTER

NOW we're in for it. Condé Nast Publications, which last year managed to soar above the general industry malaise by posting a 5.41 percent jump in ad pages, is slumping...

MAG MAVEN WHO PUT WRITERS FIRST

I sent my piece to 12 magazines simultaneously (I was 23; what did I know?) and got rejected by them all. Weeks later, NEW YORK called - I had forgotten...

NEAR-BANKRUPT NEXCEN LICENSOR NEARS SALE OF WAVERLY BRAND

NexCen - the embattled licensing and franchise company that owns Bill Blass, Athlete's Foot and MaggieMoo's - is nearing a sale of its Waverly home-furnishings as it scrambles to avoid...

BLACK SETTLES APT. SUIT

Quarterbacking from his prison cell, dethroned media mogul Conrad Black settled a legal skirmish with Sotheby's International Realty over the $10.5 million sale of his Park Avenue apartment. Sotheby's had...

FIFTH AVE. GEM SELLS FOR $63M

RONALD Winston just got some golden bricks to go along with his retirement parachute. As Page Six advised back in May, Winston is finally leaving the family jewels in the...

BARACK'S BUDDIES' UGLY POLITICS

Barack Obama "had nothing to do" with Gen. Wesley Clark's curt dismissal of John McCain's military record, the retired Army officer wants everyone to know. "I don't think riding in...

ONE SICKENING HOSPITAL

A new policy from the city Health and Hospitals Corp. is meant to limit the number of patients at any one time in a psychiatric emergency room - and also...

MORE EGG ON ELIOT'S FACE

"I told you so. There was never a case here. What more can we say? The enormous waste was a travesty."- Ken Langone, former NYSE compensation chairman,after AttorneyGeneral Andrew Cuomo...

WEIRD BUT TRUE

It pays to be a stool pigeon. Desi Stewart saw pigeons being netted on an Upper East Side street, reported it and won a $2,500 award from an animal rights...

UNHOLY MATRIMONY

GOT a wedding coming up this weekend, the one after that, and all the weekends for the near foreseeable future until October? Your schedule might be packed with betrothals, but...

WEDDING STYLE MISTAKES

SOME wedding conventions go in and out of fashion, but one rule stays the same: A bride's beauty should never be trumped. So for all gals seeking to look good...

BE A MERRY MAID

HAVING just ended a relationship, I didn't expect to be walking down the aisle any time soon. But when Anna, my best friend since kindergarten, asked me to be her...

CUT THE COSTS

SOMETHING borrowed, something blue, and these days brides are doing something new - spending less. Extravagant weddings certainly haven't disappeared, but an increasing number of couples are cutting back on...

HOW TO ROCK THE RECEPTION

DON'T think you can make it through another reception? No worries, champ, we'll get you through the tortur . . . we mean, the fun. Just follow these survival tips,...

WORKS BY BRIT ARTIST STILL A REAL HEAD-TURNER

GRAB your life vests - J.M.W. Turner's stormy seascapes have just blown into the Met. And they're just the tip of the iceberg. The massive new "J.M.W. Turner" retrospective has...

SPEECH SHOCKED

"I went through a wide range of emotions during the speech," says newlywed Kyle Kinsella. "Laughter, discomfort, anger, boredom, a need to go to the bathroom, desire for a stiff...

BUMP IT

BETWEEN Jamie Lynn Spears and a batch of new shows about teens with babies, pregnant teens are about to replace cops and ER doctors as TV staples. Teens charged with...

GABRIEL BYRNE'S 'TREATMENT' TALE

GABRIEL Byrne, the intense star who plays the intense therapist on HBO's critically acclaimed "In Treatment," admitted last week during an interview on Irish radio that he came to the...

DEANNA FIRES UP 'BACHELOR' FRANCHISE

'THE Bachelorette" DeAnna Pappas is catching on. After an unimpressive start earlier this year, the dating show has become the most popular series on Tuesday nights. The show - where...

EMMY LIST LEAKS

'DESPERATE Housewives" star Teri Hatcher has been snubbed by the Emmys this year. Hatcher, who is arguably one of the more visible comic elements on the popular ABC dramady, is...

'EARL' HITCHED

JASON Lee, 38, star of the hit NBC series "My Name Is Earl" is getting hitched again. Lee and pregnant girlfriend Ceren Alkac, an Australian model, were spotted in line...

MYSTERY OF PREGNANT 'IDOL'S BABY DADDY

WHO is Paris Bennett's baby daddy? As The Post reported over the weekend, one-time "American Idol" princess Bennett, 19, is pregnant. But the identity of the father is being kept...

'WIDOW' IS AT ITS PEAK

WHAT a joy Monday to see the return, after five years, of American Ballet Theatre's "The Merry Widow" - a fun, faintly sexy and nostalgic postcard from another age. A...

YOU CRUISE, YOU LOSE

WHEN it comes to the Broadway box office, the current Mrs. Tom Cruise doesn't have a patch on the former Mrs. Tom Cruise. Katie Holmes, who'll star in the revival...

PAIN IN THE BRASSERIE

SOME damn good food cowers in the gloom of Brasserie 44, the modern-American café interred behind the lobby of the "re-imagined" (i.e., ruined) Royalton. But you'll pay dearly for luscious,...

DEVILS INK HOLIK, ROLSTON

Free agency became a Devils reunion last night, as GM Lou Lamoriello signed forwards Brian Rolston and Bobby Holik to return. "I think it's going to be great, for me,...

ANOTHER DARK NIGHT FOR YANKEE BAT MEN

Well, look at the bright side. The Yanks doubled their run total of the previous night. Yeah, right. Big deal. The gloomy side is far more depressing. The Yanks dropped...

JETER TAKES SEAT FOR LATEST OF FENSIVE DUD

THE Iron Man sat, never mind the Yankees' offense came into the game suffering from anemia. "We're trying to make sure he stays strong and doesn't get hurt," Joe Girardi...

PONSON TO FACE OLD TEAM

Sidney Ponson pitched six shutout innings on Friday night against the Mets in the debut outing of his second Yankees stint. The Rangers could use some pitching as they try...

ROAD TO RECOVERY

THE fight against cancer gets more difficult by the day for John Challis, but he wanted to see a game at Yankee Stadium, especially after the 18-year-old got the chance...

S.I. YANKS HAVE CHANGE OF LUCK

It's better to be lucky than good, the saying goes. The Staten Island Yankees were lucky and good last night during their 9-4 victory over the Aberdeen Ironbirds at Richmond...

NOT HIS BEST JOBA

This was not the Joba Chamberlain the Yanks have grown accustomed to seeing. He labored - four innings 91 pitches, 49 strikes, four walks. And yet he kept the Yankees...

JONES TREADS IN NEW WATERS

OMAHA, Neb. - Cullen Jones stands out at most swim meets, and not always because of his times. He is an African-American, a rarity in U.S. swimming. The 24-year-old is...

COUGHLIN, PEIRSOL SMASH RECORDS

OMAHA, Neb. - Natalie Coughlin and Aaron Peirsol continued the world record-breaking trend at the U.S. Olympic Trials, and Michael Phelps qualified for his second event in Beijing here last...

SPORTS SHORTS

BASEBALL: Hall accepts Bonds ball Now branded with an asterisk, the ball Barry Bonds launched for his record 756th home run last year landed last night in the Hall of...

CARL: TRACK NEEDS CLEAN-CUT IMAGE

EUGENE, Ore. - As Tyson Gay was blazing his way through 100 meters faster than any human ever had - perhaps even before he crossed the Hayward Field finish line...

HONDO A C.C. RIDER

Hondo, who'd been blistering hot lately, was de prived of taking another victory lap last night when Brutal Borowski of the Tribe gave it up to the Chisox in the...

I'M IN A FOWL MOOD

It's a bit early to be thinking about wind-blown marshes and flights of ducks and geese, but those who take waterfowling seriously like to put aside some time for their...

ISLANDERS LAND STREIT

The Islanders moved to help their woeful power play last night, signing free agent defenseman Mark Streit to a five-year contract worth a reported $20.5 million. The 30-year-old power-play specialist...

BLUESHIRTS LAND REDDEN

The snapshot taken of the Rangers on the morning of this second day of free agency is blurred beyond recognition. It will take some time for the team picture to...

RED BULLS BOOTED

The Red Bulls were eliminated from the U.S. Open Cup last night with a 2-0 loss to Crystal Palace USA in Annapolis, Md., but they picked two players with the...

KNICKS MAKE BID FOR BULLS' POINT GUARD CHRIS DUHON

Bulls backup point guard Chris Duhon, during a visit to the Knicks' Westchester campus on Day 1 of free agency yesterday, met with coach Mike D'Antoni and was offered a...

A VERY JERRY WIN

ST. LOUIS - Jerry Manuel had the Midas touch last night. After all sorts of tinkering by their interim manager, the Mets made Manuel look smart in a 7-4 throttling...

LINE-DRIVE SCARE FOR DUANER

ST. LOUIS - Duaner Sanchez's star-crossed career flashed before his eyes last night. The Met reliever, who missed nearly two full seasons after wrecking his right shoulder in a 2006...

NETS GO A-COURTIN'

The Nets yesterday were finalizing their roster for the summer league in Orlando while taking the first steps of upgrading the team through free agency. "Today was the first salvo,"...

Mets confident of Pedro revival

Pedro Martinez has had his head buried in homework since last Friday. He has been studying up on himself, though, not opposing hitters.What prompted all of this introspection was a...

Sanchez OK after liner scare

Duaner Sanchez (pictured) is OK after taking a Yadier Molina liner off the inside of his left knee in the eighth inning of Tuesday night's 7-4 win over the Cardinals....

SALUD!

Summertime is synonymous with salt-rimmed margaritas, minty mojitos and other Latin cocktails. Not only are they refreshing and positively thirst quenching, but just one sip transports imbibers to azure beaches...

STEP TO IT!

Hate exercising? Maybe it's because your training regimen is about as boring as waiting on line at the DMV. Why not hop off the treadmill for a sec and enjoy...

THE REEL DEAL

When 29-year-old Calixto Chinchilla saw the final line-up of the one hundred films that will be featured in this year's New York International Latino Film Festival, an event that he...

ROCK & AWE

When the organizers of the Latin Alternative Music Conference say that their event puts a spotlight on Spanish alternative music, believe them. One of the bands set to perform in...

Wade-ing for some structure

By BRETT CYRGALISOn what is almost always the most entertaining day in hockey that doesn’t involve the actual playing of the sport, the Rangers did not sit dormant at yesterday’s...