August 22, 2009
RED SOX BOMB THE YANKEES
BOSTON -- Kevin Youkilis homered twice and tied a career high with six RBIs, rookie Junichi Tazawa stopped New York's big bats and the Boston Red Sox broke a five-game...
Richie Williams Part II begins Sunday
Follow the Post's soccer coverage on Twitter!Richie Williams starts his second stint as interim coach tomorrow when the Red Bulls face Dallas, making him their version of his Knick namesake...
RBNY captain Juan Pablo Angel: We have to "avoid being the worst team in history''
Follow the Post's soccer coverage on Twitter!Beleaguered Red Bull coach Juan Carlos Osorio quit on Friday, with assistant Richie Williams taking over for his second stint as interim. Tomorrow against...
STATEN ISLAND LITTLE LEAGUE TEAM LOSES 6-1
SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. -- Justin Jones homered for the second straight day and fired a three-hitter, leading Warner Robins, Ga., to a 6-3 victory Saturday over Staten Island, N.Y., at...
Altidore makes Premier League debut, sets up goal in 1-0 Hull win
U.S. National Team standout Jozy Altidore made his Premier League debut a great one, assisting on the only goal in Hull City's 1-0 win over Bolton today with his very...
HURRICANE BILL WEAKENS BUT CLOSES LOCAL BEACHES
A weakening Hurricane Bill spun northward Saturday, churning up rough seas, creating dangerous rip tides and closing beaches to swimmers up and down the eastern seaboard, including President Obama's planned...
This and that from Citi Field
A few notes before the 1969 World series ceremony gets underway: -- Jerry Manuel says that David Wright (concussion) is on schedule to be activated from the disabled list Sept....
SCHUMER WANTS UN TO CONDEMN LOCKERBIE BOMBER FETE
NEW YORK -- New York Sen. Charles Schumer wants the United Nations to condemn Libya's welcome home celebration for the man convicted in the 1988 jetliner bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland....
Game 123: Phillies at Mets
The Mets will honor their 1969 world champions tonight, then try to deal the first-place Phillies another Citi Field loss when Tim Redding takes the mound against impressive young right-hander...
OBAMA TO HEALTH CARE CRITICS: END 'PHONY CLAIMS'
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is challenging critics of his push to overhaul the health care system to stop making "phony claims" about proposals now the subject of intense coast-to-coast...
FBI DIRECTOR OUTRAGED BY LOCKERBIE BOMBER RELEASE
WASHINGTON -- FBI Director Robert Mueller thundered down on Scotland's justice minister for releasing the Lockerbie bomber, an act that "gives comfort to terrorists" all over the world. Mueller sent...
BKLYN TEEN SHOT DEAD
A Brooklyn teen was gunned down this morning at a party in East New York, police said. Craig Shelton, 15, was shot in the head on Euclid Avenue, just a...
Coverage in The Post
With the Mets reduced to a spoiler role now, Billy Wagner's possible departure to Boston via a trade or waiver claim overshadowed their 4-2 win Friday night over the Phillies...
POLICE: ARREST IN LONG ISLAND HATE-CRIME BEATING
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. -- A man has been arrested on a hate crime charge in the beating of an Ecuadorean immigrant on Long Island. Suffolk County police say Ramon Rodriguez...
1 DEAD AFTER SEAPORT SHOOTING
A Brooklyn man was shot in the head and killed after a wild melee broke out on a dangerously overcrowded Lower Manhattan party boat early today at the South Street...
HODGES GUIDED '69 MIRACLE TEAM
THERE would not have been the Miracle Mets without Gil Hodges. For all the success of the players, it was Hodges who molded that team into world champions. "They were...
PLAYOFFS HAVE BECOME JUST HINSKE'S LUCK
It's not like the steam-rolling Yankees need a good-luck charm, but it looks like they have got one anyway. Wherever journeyman Eric Hinske goes, his team wins. He appears to...
TIGER PROVIDES LIBERTY A BOOST
Tiger Woods is coming to town. For the first time since 2003, Woods will compete in the regular PGA Tour event in the metropolitan area, having yesterday committed to the...
SCOUTING REPORT ON WARNER ROBINS
Though Chula Vista, Calif., is considered the strongest of the U.S. teams, Georgia isn't far behind. The Warner Robins Little League, 1 ½ hours south of Atlanta, won the World...
GEORGIA ROMP AN 'I' OPENER
Justin Jones homered twice to key a 13-hit attack, and Georgia defeated Iowa 11-3 yesterday in the opener for both teams at the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa....
Staten Island has a blast in Williamsport laugher
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. -- The South Shore Express picked up serious steam yesterday. With Mayor Bloomberg sitting among the sea of orange at Volunteer Stadium, the Staten Island sluggers sent a...
IT'S SLIM PICKINGS FOR FANTASY WRS
With the NFL season fast approaching, it's time to get prepared for your fantasy draft. In Part 4 of a five-part series, the Fantasy Tracker gives you a look at...
TAKE TWO: FANTASY WR FIELD IS WIDE OPEN
With training camp around the corner, football fans around the country are gearing up for the 2009-10 NFL season. And while the real pros aren't quite ready to hit the...
THESE NL ROSTER CHANGES MAY IMPACT FANTASY PLAYOFF PUSH
THOSE fearful of a vanishing middle class should refer to the bunched-up National League. A few World Series hopefuls added parts at the deadline, the Pirates unloaded players like they...
BELDAME PURSE COULD LURE RACHEL-ZENYATTA
SARATOGA SPRINGS -- All summer, racing fans and the media have urged a showdown between Jerry Moss' 5-year-old mare Zenyatta, the "Best of the West," and Jess Jackson's 3-year-old filly...
ALABAMA FILLY HAS 'APPEAL'
SARATOGA SPRINGS -- Call her the "Rachel Alexandra of Great White North." The 3-year-old filly Milwaukee Appeal, after crushing a field of fellow Canadian-bred fillies in the Woodbine Oaks, ventured...
CORDERO BROUGHT PRESTIGE TO SARATOGA RIDING TITLE
MIDWAY through the six-week Saratoga racing season, Alan Garcia, the defending champion, held a four-win lead over Ramon Dominguez in the race for the jockeys' riding title. Who is on...
SHOWDOWN AT SARATOGA
Post handicappers John DaSilva, Ed Fountaine and two-time defending champion Vic Cangialosi challenge former champion steeplechase jockey, OTB backstretch insider and co-publisher of the Saratoga Special, Sean Clancy, as they...
PLAXICO'S ENABLERS GET A PASS
Plaxico Burress is going to jail. The ex-New York Giant wide re ceiver and hero of Super Bowl XLII struck a deal Thursday that will put him behind bars for...
DAMON HURTS KNEE, OUT INDEFINITELY
BOSTON -- Don't look for Johnny Damon anywhere but in the Yankees' dugout today. After fouling a ball off his right leg -- near the knee -- in the first...
PEDROIA'S EFFORT LEVEL LEAVES ROBBIE IN DUST
BOSTON -- I formed a seven- man committee comprised of one NL GM, one AL GM, and five assistants -- three NL and two AL -- and posed this question:...
BLUES' CLUES
LET'S give a hand to the Moody Blues -- the Brit Invasion band's days of future have passed, but that doesn't stop them from delivering great rock shows. At Radio...
THERE SHOULD BE A LAW AGAINST THAT!
NASTY parking ticket got you down? Maybe you should be worrying about the next time a cop decides to slap fine you with a $25 fine: for flirting on the...
MALIGNAGGI KNOWS HE NEEDS KO TO BEAT DIAZ
HOUSTON -- Paulie Malignaggi understands he is the visitor venturing into enemy territory to conquer the hometown hero. That's why the frustration the Brooklyn boxer has had over the circumstances...
IMPLANTS ID'D SLAY VICTIM
Authorities were able to identify a slain swimsuit model's body through her breast implants, after her former reality-star ex-hubby allegedly chopped off her fingers and knocked out her teeth to...
PLAXICO'S JAILHOUSE 'TRAINER'
Move over, Tom Coughlin -- ex-Giant Plaxico Burress has a new coach to get him in shape for prison. Burress' lawyer yesterday revealed that the Super Bowl hero -- who...
BEN A BULLY: 'VICTIM'
RENO, Nev. -- A lawyer for the woman who claims Steeler quarterback Ben Roethlisberger raped her at Lake Tahoe last summer wants a judge to punish his legal team, saying...
BABY-PLUNGE TRAGEDY
A 16-month-old girl tumbled to her death from the second-floor window of her Brooklyn home yesterday. Afnan Elhewizy -- the fourth city child to fall from a building in the...
SCISSORS IN SHOP ATTACK
A man wigged out at a swank Harlem florist shop yesterday, threatening to kill his ex-girlfriend and attacking her with a giant pair of scissors, sources and a witness said....
MIGHT AS WELL JUMP
NO!" sounds a lot like "GO!" when you're perched at the edge of an airplane door, 11,500 feet in the air, ready to jump out. The sensation might be blissful...
GEAR UP NOW
GET a jump on the school year by gathering the best supplies and gadgets out there. Here are our favorites this fall: * Goodbyn Lunch Box. Save the Earth (and...
A FAMILY E-FAIR
NICOLE Rott Abidor decided to join JDate after her sister, Jaclyn Rott Jarnicki, found love on the site in just one month. "She was kind of letting me test out...
WHAT'S UP?
Today BACK TO COOL: Shift your state of mind (painlessly) from slacker to student at the Back to School kickoff in Central Park. Board of Ed reps will answer parents'...
THE TWEEN SCENE
SUMMER'S nearly over -- parents, control your glee -- and we've got the cure for your tween's back-to-school blues: color! And lots of it. Say goodbye to the mauves and...
FOX ON 'SNL'
SEXY Megan Fox is hosting the season-opener of "Saturday Night Live" next month, according to reports. The Hollywood sensation is said to be working now on a video with Adam...
HEATHER TALKS TO 'PLACE'
THE bitch is back -- maybe. Heather Locklear is in talks to return to the updated "Melrose Place" to reprise her old role as scheming advertising executive Amanda Woodward, reports...
TURBAN MYTH
DON'T bother applying. I'm talking about Lifetime's movie, "Acceptance," which is about kids who are obsessed with getting into Harvard, but is so badly written it wouldn't make it as...
THE NEXT CRACKDOWN
BUOYED by what it sees as international indifference to the fate of dissidents in Iran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's administration is preparing public opinion for the arrest of the movement protesting...
DESPERATE MEASURES
WHAT if America tran scended race, and Barack Obama wasn't invited? The question comes to mind as cries of racism grow ever louder from Obama's supporters. No one should be...
BAMCARE'S SURE THING: DEATH & HIGHER TAXES
I am not surprised that the mouthpiece of the Obama administration, The New York Times, is rising to defend Obama's health-care plan ("It's All a Death Panel," Dick Morris and...
BERNANKE: NO QUICK RECOVERY
US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke yesterday made clear that while the global economy is on more stable ground, he's not expecting a rapid economic recovery. Speaking to a group...
EX-UBS BANKER SENTENCED
A key government informant in the US tax investigation of UBS AG's cross-border banking business was sentenced yesterday to 3 years and four months in prison for helping the Swiss...
COURT KOS LEHMAN PAYOUT PLAN
Former clients of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.'s European arm were struck a blow yesterday after the UK High Court said it couldn't approve a plan to expedite the return of...
WILL DEMS SUPPORT O'S AFGHAN FIGHT?
AFGHANISTAN was sup posed to be the good war -- the one Democrats said we should be fighting instead of Iraq. We heard it over and over again during the...
BUSINESS BRIEFS
New hiring Morgan Stanley has embarked on a hiring binge that will add up to 400 trading and sales positions in the coming months, sources said. The push is designed...
ANNTAYLOR SALES SINK
AnnTaylor Stores Corp., the retailer of women's business attire, reported a 21 percent drop in revenue in the second quarter and forecast continued pressure on sales this year. Sales at...
DOW INDEX MAY BE SOLD
The Dow Jones industrial average might one day get another name as Dow Jones & Co. is reportedly considering a sale of its stock-index business. According to a story on...
RUSSIAN EATS HUMBLE PIE
A Russian construction magnate who made headlines for saying that anyone who failed to become a billionaire in Russia is a loser has admitted that his once titanic company is...
DOW CLOSES OVER 9,500, HIGHEST SINCE LAST YEAR
* So much for the claim that stocks have been overbought. Shares across virtually all sectors surged yesterday as a fresh batch of economic data provided yet more evidence that...
DAVE'S DUBIOUS DEFENSE
Gov. Paterson must be desperate to boost his floundering political career. Yesterday, he took to the airwaves with the claim that criticism of his administration -- which is among the...
CLUNKER HEALTH CARE?
The Obama folks plan to end their Cash for Clunkers program Monday -- and good thing, since it was rap idly falling into chaos. By contrast, if Congress passes President...
STUYTOWN CASH CRISIS
Developer Tishman Speyer has nearly depleted a $650 million cash reserve needed to prop up iconic apartment complexes Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town, and thanks to an unresolved court...
3-MILE GOLDMAN
* The mountains of money that Goldman Sachs is both making and intending to pay its employees has become so toxic that CEO Lloyd Blankfein is mounting a cleanup effort...
SANITMEN GET HANDED THEIR LUNCH
Five Sanitation Department bosses got into a heap of trouble yesterday when they decided to join a former colleague for a casual, home-style lunch yesterday in Queens. The five --...
TETERBORO DUO'S MIRACLE ESCAPE
The pilots who miraculously walked away from their small plane that exploded in a crash near Teterboro Airport early yesterday were trying to pull up for a second landing after...
HEALTH-CARE WOES INFECTING O'S POLLS
WASHINGTON -- Americans' confidence in President Obama has plummeted as he has worked to greatly expand the power and reach of the federal government with a massive new health-care program,...
PATERSON WHINES: 'RACISM!'
ALBANY -- Gov. Paterson has played the race card. The state's first black governor yesterday blamed his political woes -- and those of President Obama -- on a white-dominated media...
CALLING ALL LI'L LEAGUE FANATICS
Orange-clad boosters from Staten Island went berserk as their South Shore Little Leaguers won on the opening day of the Little League World Series -- Mayor Bloomberg, not so much....
BIZARRE BUST IN BIAS BEAT
A thug was busted yesterday for a racially fueled beating and robbery of a Hispanic man on Long Island, police said. But in a twist, sources describe the suspect, Ramon...
BOSOX CLAIM WAGNER OFF WAIVERS
Billy Wagner could be calling Fenway Park home by Tuesday. Fresh off Wagner's impressive return Thursday night from Tommy John elbow surgery, the Red Sox placed a waiver claim on...
CENTS-LESS SOX SPENT $ ON CLUNKERS
BOSTON -- The Red Sox might as well end their Cash for Clunkers program, too. BOX SCOREBOSTON NOW THINKS ONLY WILD CARDDAMON HURTS KNEEHAPPY DAYS FOR YANKSMATSUI POWERS ROUTPEDROIA OUT-EFFORTS...
RED BULLS COACH QUITS
Red Bull coach Juan Carlos Osorio resigned yesterday, leaving assistant Richie Williams as interim for the final eight games of the year. With just two wins, the team is on...
JETS CLOSE TRAINING CAMP IN CONFIDENT MOOD
The Jets players, coaches and support staff convened for a 7 a.m. breakfast yesterday at SUNY Cortland before breaking training camp and driving home to prepare for their second preseason...
MATSUI POWERS FEN-TASTIC 23-HIT ROUT
BOSTON -- When the Red Sox's AL East epitaph is written, it will be in ink dripping from the Yankees' biceps. Last night at Fenway Park the Yankees flexed their...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
She's Britney's bitch now. A man who dressed his beloved pet Chihuahua in pink was devastated when a man with a Britney Spears tattoo stole the pooch from a party...
ANGUISH OF SEX-TEST TRACK STAR
BERLIN -- The gender controversy that has engulfed Caster Semenya, the South African who won the 800-meter race at the World Championships, has made her so miserable that she had...
HAIL, NO! BAM SLAMS FIEND'S FEST
President Obama yesterday blasted the hero's welcome given to the freed Lockerbie bomber, as angry relatives of the killer's victims planned to confront Libyan dictator Moammar Khadafy next month in...
PAINTING BY THE BLUNDERS: $3M 'FORKLIFT STAB' SUIT
Now that's "forked" up. A $3 million painting was rendered worthless after being damaged while being transported by plane from Moscow to New York last year, according to legal papers...
'CAT KILLER' IN BAG
A Manhattan man was charged yesterday with sadistically and methodically murdering four of his girlfriend's cats over three months -- a horrific spree that investigators said was one of the...
SOX HOOD AVOIDED COPS' TAG
The Bosox bandit wanted for terrorizing subway riders for months is a hulking ex-con with arrests dating back two decades who was ticketed by cops during his spree and let...
47 PASSENGERS 'JAILED' ON JET AT CLOSED AIRPORT
The food was gone, the cabin reeked of dirty diapers and the toilets were overflowing, but heartless Minneapolis airport staff had only one message for the exasperated pilot of a...
DWI CAB HORROR
A drunken driver slammed into a Long Island taxi so hard that two people were hurled from it and seven were hurt in all, cops said yesterday. East Hampton police...
HAGAN LOOKS TO CATCH ON WITH GIANTS
CHICAGO -- Judged strictly by his body of work in training camp in Albany, Derek Hagan is deserving of a spot on the Giants' roster. GIANTS BLOG That sampling, though,...
SPORTS SHORTS
WNBA: McCarville's hoop leads Liberty Written on the tip of Janel McCarville's pink sneaker was the inscription Bonnie Danine McCarvile -- 4-17-07. That's the date she succumbed to cancer. McCarville...
MIKE'S BIG PHARMA $LIP
Not many people, especially those in the middle of a re-election campaign, would defend the multibillion-dollar pharmaceutical industry these days. But that's what Mayor Bloomberg did yesterday on his weekly...
LOCKERBIE KIN'S GRIEF CAST ASIDE
SCOT free? Outra geous! As we watched Abdel Baset al-Megrahi walk free, my 6-year-old son, Bo, asked me why they were releasing the man who murdered the uncle he never...
OBAMAS' VINEYARD ESCAPE
WASHINGTON -- DC is scorching hot, his health-care plan is on the rocks, and President Obama is decamping to Martha's Vineyard for his first-ever presidential vacation, which the White House...
BRAKES ON CONEY IS. THRILL RIDES
The dream is over. Dreamland amusement park, set up to replace Coney Island's iconic Astroland, was shuttered yesterday, with its operator more than $600,000 behind in rent. The fun fair...
'CANE GIVES NY A REAL BEACH SLAP
Kill Bill! Hurricane Bill has turned into a wet blanket for weekend fun, as the potentially deadly waves crashing toward New York led officials to close all beaches to swimming....
WAR OVER SECURITY 'POLITICS'
WASHINGTON -- Critics said yesterday former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge's claim he was pressured to raise the security threat level is proof that the Bush administration politicized the war...
HIGH TIME: LINE ABANDONS TAX
The High Line is taking the high road. Following public outcry, operators of the wildly popular downtown park, built on defunct elevated train tracks, are dropping their controversial plan to...
JACKOFEST PLAN GOING KING SIZE
Big Apple officials want to find a larger place for Spike Lee to hold his celebration of Michael Jackson's birthday. The filmmaker had planned to mark the King of Pop's...
BOSTON NOW THINKS ONLY 'WILD CARD'
BOSTON -- The Yankees are in the Red Sox's heads. Just listen to David Ortiz, who offered this honest evaluation after his Sawx were bludgeoned, 20-11, last night at Fenway...
SHEFFIELD STUCK WITH AMAZIN'S
Gary Sheffield is stuck with the Mets, so he might as well make the most of it. BOX SCOREMETS BLOGHALE: In Omar's DefenseBOSTON BEWARE BILLY The disgruntled outfielder yesterday pledged...
HONDO HAS A PAIR
The Angels put Hondo through holy hell last night, getting nipped in Toronto to send him deeper into the hole with IOUs totaling 320 hebners. Today, he'll go with Mr....
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan It wasn't about the Benjamins for this alleged bank robber. Bank bandit Kenith Agard refused to take $100 bills from a teller at the HSBC branch on Broadway near...
GLOVED ONE BUSTS COMING
Michael Jackson's family has been notified that arrests stemming from his death may come as soon as Monday, sources told The Post yesterday. The criminal investigation has centered around Dr....
PERFECT STORM OF BAD BIZ
Beach business owners -- already crippled by this summer's dreary weather -- now have Hurricane Bill to blame for a final, crushing financial blow. "We're sunk," said Carol Albert, operator...
LINDSAY SPARKS DELI BEEF IN PHONE FOLLY
He really pushed her buttons. Lindsay Lohan went ballistic on a deli worker who, unaware of her fame, made her jump through hoops to get back a cellphone she had...
'HAPPY DAYS' ARE HERE AGAIN
BOSTON -- This was a different dynamic, and yet an all-too-familiar one. This, for the first time in so many years, was a hearkening of the way things used to...
RICE RIPS JETER AT THE LLWS
BOSTON -- Derek Jeter's relationship with Jim Rice consists of the Yankees' captain saying hello to the Hall of Fame outfielder. BOX SCOREBOSTON NOW THINKS ONLY WILD CARDSOX BOUGHT CLUNKERSDAMON...
GIANT MISTAKE NOT TO WAIVE GOODBYE
AS a player who never had a contract he didn't ultimately conspire to break, Gary Sheffield understands he made the rumpled bed from which he bounded yesterday morning, with what...
FAVRE INTRO A DUD
Camera flashes illuminated the Metrodome on each of Brett Favre's eight plays for Minnesota. Captured on film? Just one completed pass. JETS BLOG Favre's debut was a dud in terms...
CELEBRATING THE LIFE OF CARLOS ALVAREZ
A fixture on the Brooklyn art and dance scene, Carlos Alvarez's name was synonymous with high-energy fun. "It's amazing how many people knew him," says Jason Sinopoli. "He was just...
YANKEES RUN AWAY FROM SOX IN 20-11 WIN
Hideki Matsui homered twice and had a career-high seven RBIs, Alex Rodriguez had four hits and the New York Yankees picked up where they left off against the Boston Red...
Will 'Avatar' Be a Hit? You Bet Jurassic
A hungry crowd of awed fanboys packed the IMAX theater at Lincoln Square in Manhattan Friday night to be blown away by the worldwide premiere of 20 minutes of footage...
Damon leaves with bruised knee
By GEORGE A. KING IIIBOSTON -- The Yankees lost Johnny Damon in the first inning tonight when he fouled a ball off his right leg in the first inning.Damon was...