July 7, 2008
Bullington proof top prospects don't always pan out
Over the weekend, the Pirates designated for assignment pitcher Brian Bullington, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2002 draft. Here's a list of some of the players drafted in...
BEASLEY, ROSE FACE OFF
ORLANDO, Fla. -- First impressions: Michael Beasley is good. But he likes to shoot. A lot. A real lot. The No. 2 pick in the NBA Draft out of Kansas...
MUSTACHE INSTITUTE BACKS GIAMBI
The Yankees have discarded their stiff upper lip and called on the American Mustache Institute to help Jason Giambi make the American League All-Star team. Giambi is one of five...
King of the street
style="float:right;margin-left:5px;">Everyone will soon be walking all over Larry King.King, the host of CNN’s "Larry King Live," will have a portion of an LA street named after him.The intersection of Sunset...
Jefferson Wanted Remain Net His Entire Career
Former Nets forward Richard Jefferson met with the Milwaukee press for the first time today as a member of the Bucks. He was traded from New Jersey for Yi Jianlian...
Game 89: Mets at Phillies
The Mets will try to take three out of four from the rival Phillies and close the gap in the NL East to just 2½ games tonight when Pedro Martinez...
Deal of the Day-Calypso
A simple white T-Shirt gets a major style upgrade with a gorgeous oversized scarf around the neck. Even in the summer months, it’s a stylish solution to office frigid air.And...
Minaya: Mets talked Sabathia
Omar Minaya confirmed today that the Mets were involved in talks with the Indians about pitcher CC Sabathia before Cleveland shipped Sabathia to the Brewers. Minaya said Indians GM Mark...
Church back in NY for tests
The Mets sent Ryan Church back to New York today for further tests after the right fielder had to come out of Saturday night's game because of dizziness. Church was...
Schilling unsure about future
APTwo weeks after season-ending surgery on his right shoulder, Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling said today he hasn’t decided whether he will try to play in 2009.“We’re in the...
Ticket window hours adjusted
The Yankees announced today that Advance Ticket Windows located at Yankee Stadium will be closed from Friday, July 11 at 5 p.m. until 10 a.m. on All-Star Sunday, July 13.Fans...
'Inside the NFL' has trio
style="float:right;margin-left:5px;">James Brown is the new host of "Inside the NFL," which premieres on Showtime Sept. 10.The show will air each Wednesday at 9 p.m. during the NFL season.Bob Costas hosted...
PLAXICO: I'LL BE AT TRAINING CAMP
Plaxico Burress insists he's healthy, tremendously excited to see what he can do on two working legs and, most importantly to Giants fans, promises to be at training camp along...
All Quiet On the World Soccer Front
If you're a fan of international soccer, then this month is a good time to take a break from the sport because there just isn't much on the menu.There were...
Healthy Plaxico ready for camp
BY PAUL SCHWARTZPlaxico Burress insists he's healthy, tremendously excited to see what he can do on two working legs and, most importantly to Giants fans, promises to be at training...
Argentina Eyes Another Olympic Gold Medal
Defending Olympic champions Argentina -- fielding two of the world's most talented youngsters -- are the squad to beat once again at next month's Olympic soccer tournament in Beijing.Twenty-year-old prodigies,...
'The Dark Knight' -- The Trades Rave
Much to the annoyance of daily critics like Kyle Smith (who will be reviewing in print for The Post) and myself who won't get to see "The Dark Knight'' until...
Report: Wrigley getting outdoor game
The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that the Chicago Blackhawks and Detroit Red Wings will participate in the NHL's next outdoor Winter Classic, at Wrigley Field, on New Year's Day.Yankee Stadium...
Scene-NYC streets
Photographer Rachel Lee wears buttoned high-waisted shorts by Lux with a thin patent-leather belt, an Urban Outfitters' scarf, Calvin Klein shoes, sunglasses from St. Mark's, and a Wunderbloc bag."I like...
CYNTHIA RODRIGUEZ BLASTS A-ROD IN DIVORCE FILING
It's D-Day for A-Rod. Cynthia Rodriguez filed for divorce today, pinning her pinstriped husband Alex as and adulterer who bedded a bevy of babes. Their marriage "is irretrievably broken because...
Coverage in today's Post
While it took more than eight mind-numbing hours (including rain delays) to complete, the Mets were riding high last night after Fernando Tatis' two-run homer in the 12th inning powered...
Fashion Transit
I was riding N.J. Transit last week when I couldn't help but notice Paige's outfit amidst the massive amounts of corporate casual."New things inspire me; I like to change my...
BRINKLEY FORCED TO EAT HER WORDS ABOUT COOK
Christie Brinkley had to eat her words today as she read from numerous interviews where she praised her pervy husband as the perfect papa. The supermodel is caught in a...
3 UP: The C.C. Sabathia Edition
1. The next time someone tells you that baseball needs a salary cap and that the sport is inherently unfair you might want to point out this: The Rays have...
Italian Players Charged With Fixing Games
ReutersFive players have been charged over alleged match-fixing in last season’s home and away Serie A fixtures between Atalanta and relegated Livorno, Italy’s football federation said.Atalanta’s Gian Paolo Bellini and...
LIVEBLOG: Hello from not too far
I've stayed out of this whole "staycation" mess mostly because I can't write about it without saying told you so. Also, I find it strange that everyone's only now thinking...
Donadoni Firing Unfair
Former Inter and Italy coach Giovanni Trappatoni said the firing of Roberto Donadoni was done in haste following the Azzurri's early exit from Euro 2008 last month and that the...
Brazilain Legend Could Sign With San Marino Club
ReutersSan Marino champions S.S. Murata said on Monday they were hoping to coax former Brazil striker Romario out of retirement for their Champions League first qualifying round tie this month.Murata,...
France's Domenech Survives Ax
For those of you too busy eating hot dogs over the Fourth of July weekend to read up on your favorite footie teams may have missed this one: Raymond Domenech...
Mourinho Something Special
As we await the start of the new Serie A season in about seven weeks time, new Inter coach Jose Mourinho is on a mission not just to help his...
NYC PARK IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS IN CONSTRUCTION OR DESIGN PHASE
Bronx $400 millionManhattan $354 millionBrooklyn $273 million Queens $198 million Staten Island $119 millionTotal $1.344 billionSource: NYC Parks & Recreation Department ---------------------------------------------------------- Significant Park Improvement Projects by Borough There are...
CON ED CARES
* "Con Ed's Next Crisis" (Nicole Gelinas, Post- Opinion, June 30) is a thoughtful analysis of the challenges Con Edison faces as it continues to provide reliable energy to New...
CLINTONS' PANTSUIT CLUB: WHERE DOES OBAMA FIT?
* "Bubba the Baby" is a perfect headline (Kirsten Powers, PostOpinion, July 1). Hillary Clinton treats Bill Clinton like her wayward son, and that is the beginning and the end...
DOWNTOWN DEBACLE
NEW office buildings are good for New York. Even empty new office buildings are good, because history proves they won't stay empty for long. This bedrock truth provides more than...
BIG DIG'S LESSONS FOR GROUND ZERO
CHRIS Ward, the new Port Authority director, ad mitted last week that Ground Zero rebuilding is utterly SNAFU'ed, with "significant delays and cost overruns" for every public project on the...
THE SENSITIVITY TRAP
MULTICULTURALISM struck again last week. London's Daily Tele graph reported that the Tayside police force in Scotland had apologized to local Muslims for running a public-service ad offensive to their...
CHINA'S OLYMPIC COPS: THEY'LL 'SCOOT' TO KILL
The Chinese are ready to roll if terrorists attack next month's Olympics. Paramilitary policemen are shown here speeding toward a target during drills last week in Jinan, the capital of...
SERB THUG & US DIPLOS TO MEET
The Serbian thug who pounded a classmate from Brooklyn into unconsciousness before jumping bail and fleeing to his homeland will reportedly meet with US Embassy officials in Belgrade. The Serbian...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sun.: 307; Lucky Sum: 10 / Midday Win-4 Sun.: 2247; Lucky Sum: 15 / Evening Nos. Sun: 921; Lucky Sum: 12 / Evening Win- 4 Sun.:...
BIRACIAL VOTERS TAKE PRIDE IN OBAMA'S 'MILESTONE'
The presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, the son of a white woman from Kansas and a black man from Kenya, has become a source of pride for biracial Americans. "It's...
KERRY RIPS PAL MAC'S 'WRONG' JUDGMENT ON WAR
Sen. John Kerry ripped into his old buddy John McCain yesterday - blasting the presumptive Republican presidential nominee as "wrong" on "every judgment he's made about the war." The Massachusetts...
REBATES STIMULATE PORN INDUSTRY
That's one way to get a rise out of the economy. President Bush's Economic Stimulus Plan has been quite stimulating - for the porn industry. A swelling number of adult...
KABBALAH 'CLEAN$ING' TO FOLLOW
If Alex Rodriguez becomes a true kabbalah believer, he'll soon be sporting its famed red-string bracelet on his glove wrist and shelling out millions to the organization, experts say. A...
A-ROD'S WIFE HURLS SPLITTER
Cynthia Rodriguez filed for divorce from hubby A-Rod in a Miami court this morning. She alleged infidelity in her Miami-Dade County Family Court filing. She said Rodriguez has "emotionally abandoned...
O'S GALS WANNA HAVE FUND
They're the Obama Girls of New York. A trio of young women fund-raisers staked out a presence for Barack Obama on Hillary Rodham Clinton's turf last year - at a...
TRIAL'S SORDID DETAILS STAIN BUSINESS MODEL
Christie Brinkley's beaming cover-girl smile has for decades made her the face of products all around the world, but her tear-streaked turn on the witness stand last week could change...
TURF WAR SET FOR CHRISTIE
There's a lot more than two kids at stake in the divorce war between Christie Brinkley and her cad of a hubby - there's also a fortune in real estate,...
WILL SMITH: BOX-OFFICE $UPERHERO
Will Smith, showing what star power is all about, overcame some of the worst reviews of his career to top the weekend box office with "Hancock" - scoring a superheroic...
WEB CELEB 'HOOFS IT' AROUND THE WORLD
A 31-year-old Connecticut native's goofy vacation lark has turned him into an Internet sensation. Matt Harding first recorded and posted himself online in 2003, dancing in various Southeast Asian countries...
BAT-'SNIT' CRAZY
A rabid Red Sox fan on Cape Cod bashed a New York man on the head with a baseball bat after he was mistaken for a Yankee fan, cops said....
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
MANHATTAN * Two men were stabbed and critically wounded yesterday in a Midtown building. The victims, one of whom was 19, were knifed in their torsos in the commercial building...
GRIPES AGAINST COPS DECLINE
For the first time in seven years, the number of official complaints charging NYPD misconduct has declined. The 7,559 complaints registered with the Civilian Complaint Review Board in 2007 were...
STRIP DIPLOS OF 'POWER': POL
Foreign diplomats should be left in the dark for skirting city parking fines and property taxes, a city councilman demanded yesterday. Eric Gioia (D-Queens) insisted the city should cut off...
DOC LEFT ME NAKED: SUIT
A pregnant Bronx woman from a religious Muslim family was undergoing a gynecological checkup - with her feet in stirrups - when her doctor flung open the door and exposed...
BUSTS ARE 2 MUCH
It could have been a scene out of the movie "Groundhog Day." Cops slapped handcuffs on the assistant manager of a Staten Island Walgreens twice for the same summons -...
FAREWELL, ESMIN
An overflow crowd at the Jesus Is Lord Sanctuary in Flatbush said farewell yesterday to a woman who died on a Kings County Hospital floor as staffers callously left her...
CROOKS FARE GAME
Bus and subway riders will be paying a higher price starting today for not paying their fare. In an effort to crack down on fare beating, the MTA has raised...
TRASH AND A TOMBSTONE LITTER NO-MAN'S LAND
The late Harry Sommerfield's body is buried in a Brooklyn cemetery - but his tombstone is among the many pieces of rubble illegally dumped in a Brooklyn park.Read Part 1:...
TEARS FOR B'KLYN MINISTER IN CRASH
Shocked congregants at a Brooklyn church prayed yesterday for their beloved minister, the Rev. Timothy Wright, "the foundation of all gospel music," who was fighting for his life last night...
E-MAILS FOR DEAD REBBE
Tens of thousands of Hasidic Jews from all over the world gathered in a Queens cemetery yesterday to mark the 14th anniversary of beloved Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson's death. "I...
NEIGH-SAYERS: BAN CARRIAGES
The effort to ban horse-drawn carriages from the streets near Central Park has hit full gallop, with animal-rights activists and celebs teaming up to try to put the industry out...
STREET CAVE-INS SKYROCKET
It's a rocky road for city drivers. Complaints about street cave-ins went up 71.5 percent over the last year, according to the city. Official grievances about cave-ins - defects defined...
WE'RE #1 WITH INT'L TRAVELERS
Foreign tourists love NY! The Big Apple remains the nation's No. 1 destination for international travelers - beating out Miami and Los Angeles as the most-visited city, according to federal...
CITY'S PARK 'ROW'
With New York City parks plagued by barren weed-strewn areas that are nesting grounds for crime, the Bloomberg administration is planning more than 400 projects to clean up green space.Trash...
THAT SMARTS!
Kids who thought they would soon start earning college credits at a promising new Bronx academy have been shocked to learn they might not even have a high school to...
TEENS MUG SOMMELIER
A wine director at a famous French restaurant was robbed at gunpoint by three young thieves on the Upper East Side, The Post has learned. Eric Delcros, 34, who is...
GAL SHOT DEAD AT 4TH BASH
A college co-ed was killed by gunfire yesterday when a Fourth of July weekend barbecue in Brooklyn turned into a bullet festival that left four others wounded, including a wheelchair-bound...
NBC, BUYOUT FIRMS $NAG WEATHER CHANNEL
NBC Universal, along with private-equity firms Bain Capital and the Blackstone Group, announced a deal yesterday to acquire cable network the Weather Channel and its related properties from Landmark Communications....
SEVERANCE WORRIES SWIRL AT COUNTRYWIDE
Angelo Mozilo was forced to turn over his $37.5 million severance, and now employees of Countrywide Financial might have to do the same. Workers at the battered mortgage giant fear...
GAMING EA'S BID
Video game maker Take-Two Interactive is likely to sign "BioShock" creator Ken Levine to a new contract, a key development that strengthens the company's argument that it's worth more than...
PAIN BY NUMBERS
It's summertime, and the living is easy - for some of us. For others, not so much. Record prices for travel, gas and groceries have our minds set squarely on...
DEUTSCHE BANK'S DEADLY 'DIMES'
The infuriatingly slow effort to demol ish the former Deutsche Bank build ing hit yet another speed bump last week as decontamination inspectors found discolorations on the floors of stories...
SCRAP THE PLAN
Newbie Port Authority boss Christo pher Ward wants 'til September to draft yet another scheme for re building Ground Zero. Spare yourself, Chris. The job can't be done. True enough,...
TRICKY SPITZER GRIPED ABOUT CLINGY 'ESCORTS'
FORMER Gov. Eliot Spitzer, forced to resign when his trysts with a high-priced hooker were exposed, had repeatedly protested that his State Police bodyguards were watching him too closely, a...
GREEDY KID BID A HALF-COOKED IDEA
IF YOU'RE a fan of Christie Brinkley's horny hubby, Peter Cook, you could find yourself wincing once again today as Phase 2 of the pair's battle royal - centering on...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
This little piggy went to market; this little piggy got gnawed off by a dog. A 56-year-old Illinois woman's beloved dachshund chewed off her right big toe while she slept....
GARDNER GROWS ON YOU
JOHNNY DAMON is wearing an ice pack on his shoulder that is both colder than the Yankee bats and large as the void he potentially leaves at the top of...
RIVALRY ERUPTS IN MORE FIREWORKS
THERE were seven batters hit by pitches in the Yankees' victory over the Red Sox on Saturday and a hockey game never broke out. A record was tied, but tempers...
A-ROD TIES THE MICK
When Alex Rodriguez meets people and Mickey Mantle's name comes up, there's always the same reaction. "Every person that I run to in the streets always has a big smile...
MOOSE OK HE DIDN'T GET CALL
Three Yankees are slated to play in next week's All-Star Game. Mike Mussina won't be one of them. The right-hander was left off of the AL squad yesterday and though...
DAMON ON DL, OUT AT LEAST 15 DAYS
Brian Cashman admitted yesterday that Johnny Damon isn't even a lock to come off the disabled list as soon as his 15 days are up. Damon not only landed on...
MO PUTS MANNY IN HIS PLACE
Mariano Rivera saw Rob Thomson jog out to talk things over with two out in the top of the ninth, the potential winning run on third and Manny Ramirez coming...
BAD INNING JOLTS JOBA
Joba Chamberlain's one bad inning was the difference between a victory and a no-decision last night. The best that could be said is the right-hander survived the biggest start of...
GARDNER VARIETY WIN FOR YANKEES
Brett Gardner, now you're officially a Yankee. The rookie's persistence paid dividends in the bottom of the 10th inning last night as he slapped a Jonathan Papelbon splitter off shortstop...
'PAPEL' MISSION FAILS FOR BOSTON'S CLOSER
Jonathan Papelbon said his mission was simple: Strike out Brett Gardner and get the Red Sox into the 11th inning. Papelbon thought he did his job. The one who truly...
'OUT OF LEFT FIELD'
SO what does a 21-year TV baseball director say when he looks at one of his monitors and clearly sees the impossible - a batted ball perched on the leftfield...
FIRST RALLY
EUGENE, Ore. _ From the moment Tyson Gay strained his leg and hit the Hayward Field ground, the 200-meters has loomed over the U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials. In...
SPORTS SHORTS
BASEBALL: Phils extend LidgeBrad Lidge's perfect first half earned him a fat, new contract. Lidge signed a $37.5 million, three-year extension with the Phillies yesterday. The hard-throwing closer is 2-0...
VARITEK (.219) A SURPRISE STAR
The All-Star reactions from Boston were typical: honored, excited, thrilled. But there was one surprised. Jason Varitek was one of seven Red Sox revealed as All-Stars yesterday despite a .219...
FRESH FACES FOR TRACK & FIELD TRIALS
EUGENE, Ore. _ With all the public-relations hits and steroid-induced shames track has brought upon itself in recent years, the sport clearly needed to see fresh, new faces coming out...
HONDO'S REELING!
It was a lost weekend for Hondo, who dropped three straight, the latest coming yesterday when he went draino with the Jays in Anaheim to lower the earnings to 450...
12TH SENSE
PHILADELPHIA - They were quite a pair, the two of them, sitting on soft yellow chairs in the visiting clubhouse at Citizens Bank Park, watching the game upstairs play out...
CHURCH: IT'S JUST A MIGRAINE
PHILADELPHIA - Ryan Church was out of the starting lineup yesterday as he and the Mets continued to insist his latest absence was due to long-term migraines and not two...
WAGS IS LONE METS STAR, BUT WRIGHT MAY GO
PHILADELPHIA - Closer Billy Wagner was the only Met named to the NL All-Star team yesterday, but David Wright still has a chance to make it to Yankee Stadium on...
METS' RAIN DANCE
PHILADELPHIA - It was mistake-filled, long and soggy, but the end result for the Mets here yesterday was a thing of beauty. Mets Game Photo Gallery After waiting out a...
BABY NETS BRACING FOR HOT SUMMER
Brook Lopez wants to show all the scrapes and bruises - including a nasty little scratch running across his cheek under his right eye - will be typical. RYan Anderson...
WEB OF INFORMANTS
Scott Smith pounds the pavement confused. Yesterday he was a highly sought-after project manager, with two top companies bending over backward to get him in for an interview. At one,...
GO TO GREG
I recently graduated with a degree in biology and have not been able to find a job. I was wondering what you think I should include in my resume to...
WHAT'S UP WITH THAT JOB?
What does a framer do all day? Framers frame artwork like drawings, paintings and photographs, as well as personal items like diplomas and mementos. A framer first consults with the...
SITES UNSEEN
For many job seekers, the Internet is an archive of embarrassment - a place where their drunken escapades, sexual misadventures and overwrought political ramblings are preserved for any potential boss...
SUMMER SPLASHES
EVERYONE claims to have the new No. 1 summer show, but unless they are "America's Got Talent," they're lying, or at least spinning the truth. Since the primetime season officially...
RECOVERY
THE brain scientists who brought VH1 "Celebrity Rehab" are lobbying for a spinoff called "Sober Living." The show, which would be a cross between "Surreal Life" and "The Real World,"...
CABLE: WORST CUSTOMER SERVICE
CONSUMERS rate cable and satellite companies' customer service call centers at the bottom of the heap. They rank worse than any other business - including US government agencies, according to...
DETHRONING 'QUEENS'
TAKE seven awful, shallow, mean girls, put them in a house together with the winner of the second season of "America's Next Top Model,"Yoanna House, and try to get them...
ROLLER BOOGIE
IT'S a wheel-y good time. So good, Ivanka Trump couldn't stop raving about it when we interviewed her last month.Fashion Photo Gallery Turns out she and her girlfriends hopped on...
GREEK CHORUS OF APPROVAL FOR 'BACCHAE'
TO say that Alan Cumming makes quite an entrance as the god Dionysus in the production of "The Bacchae," now being presented by the Lincoln Center Festival, is an understatement....
A MOVING PRODUCTION
WITHOUT doubt I have not been so moved - literally moved - as an audience member since Trevor Nunn's first London production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber mu sical "Cats."...
4TH FIREWORKS BASH A THUG BULLET FEST
A college co-ed was killed by gunfire today when a July Fourth barbecue in Brooklyn turned into a bullet festival that left four others wounded, including a wheelchair-bound man, police...
A-Rod and Mickey
He tied Mickey Mantle for 13th place on the all-time list at 536 with his home run tonight against the Red Sox. He just passed Jimmie Foxx. Wild rumors have...
DIVORCE
Cynthia Rodriguez will cite hubby A-Rod's "relationship" with Madonna when she files for divorce tomorrow, her lawyers indicated today.MORE: Madonna Denies AffairCynthia Rodriguez Gallery As Madonna took the unusual step...