September 17, 2006
MO THROWS, FEELS 'GOOD'
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amThe Yankees can't be 100-percent sure Mariano Rivera's right forearm problems have vanished. However, the key to their World Series dreams made a significant step in that direction yesterday, when...
HARD TWO TAKE - JINTS MUST FLATTEN PHILLY TO AVOID 0-2 HOLE
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Leave it to that philosopher/ tight end, Jeremy Shockey, to put in perspective what today's game against the Eagles means to the Giants. "Every week is a must-win...
FINISHING TOUCH ELUSIVE - AGAIN
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amPITTSBURGH - The losing shouldn't be what worries you. There is historical precedent for that, as Met fans know. In 1986, you may remember, the Mets won 108 regular-season games,...
CLINCH COMING 1 OF THESE DAYS; METS DENIED TITLE BY BUCS AGAIN
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amPirates 3Mets 2 PITTSBURGH - The Mets have been unable to put the division away. For the second straight day, the Mets' magic number for clinching the NL East was...
CLINCH COMING 1 OF THESE DAYS - FINISHING TOUCH ELUSIVE - AGAIN
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amPITTSBURGH - The losing shouldn't be what worries you. There is historical precedence for that, as Mets fans know. In 1986, you may remember, the Mets won 108 regular-season games,...
SCREAMIN' AT THE SCREEN
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amWITH 1:27 left in the first half last Sunday night, the Giants called time. So NBC, because no football game on any network is ever allowed to breathe, cut to...
INSIDE LOOK AT CHASERS
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amThe postseason is finally here. Let the Chase begin. Though each race during the Chase for the Nextel Cup will still have 43 entrants, only 10 drivers can win the...
BAT-TERED FOR BEING A MET FAN
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amA possible Subway Series is still a month away, but this season's Mets-Yankees rivalry has already claimed a victim. A Met fan shouting support for his team says he was...
'LAWN' & ORDER; TURF ON COURT ROOF
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amNew York City is moving on to greener pastures. The first "green roof" on a city-owned building is being unveiled in The Bronx Tuesday, launching what officials hope is the...
POLICE: NUT SLAYS DAD OF 3 COPS
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amThe father of three NYPD officers was stabbed to death on a Queens street yesterday afternoon by an emotionally disturbed man who later barricaded himself inside his family's house and...
HARLEM COP KILLS TEEN IN GUN CHASE
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amPolice shot dead an 18-year- old Harlem man running with a gun in his hand early yesterday after he refused orders to stop, officials said. Mingo Kenneth Mason was shot...
3 COPS' DAD MURDERED
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amThe proud father of three NYPD officers was brutally stabbed to death on a Queens street yesterday by a crazed man who "heard voices" and later barricaded himself inside his...
MOM 'HIT' JUST A JOKE: BABY SITTER
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amThe woman charged with trying to take a Staten Island woman's daughter by hiring a "hit man" to kill the mom for $50 said yesterday she never believed the man...
CLINCHER BACK IN METS' HANDS; IDEAL SCENARIO: WON & DONE
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amPITTSBURGH - Since the Phillies won yesterday, that kept the Mets from winning yesterday. But they still had a shot last night. The Mets' magic number was at one for...
LATEST BUZZ IS IN A CAN; SUGARY 'COCAINE' DRINK
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amA new energy drink that crashed runway parties last week is called Cocaine, and its makers are billing it as "the legal alternative" to the white powder drug. The drink's...
CITY ENLISTING PRO TO BATTLE BRIT INVA$ION
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amGET ready for the next U.S.- British war. Wall Street is losing billions in business to London, and the Bloomberg administration is rushing to hire a consultant to counteract the...
RAGING SLOTS ADDICT; MAN BLAMES PILLS
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amA movie director who got his start on the set of the Oscar-winning "Raging Bull" says a drug designed to soothe the effects of Parkinson's disease led him on a...
THE DON'T MISS LIST
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amDRAMA Find my son CONRAD and Ellie Cain, a wealthy New York couple (Timothy Hutton and Dana Delany) faces the unimaginable when their teenaged son is kidnapped. Cain hires an...
MULLALLY THANK LETTERMAN FOR LUCKY BREAK
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amIF David Letterman had not contracted shingles, Megan Mullally might never have become a talkshow host. It was during Letterman's illness in March 2003 that Mullally had her first experience...
BLOOD $PORT; IFL PROMOTER SEES SHOT TO GO FOR JUGULAR
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amWith the popularity of boxing flat on the canvas and audiences seemingly tiring of Vince McMahon's World Wide Entertainment, millions of entertainment dollars are jangling around in the pockets of...
ADVERTISING WEAK; MAD AVE. MIFFED OVER MUDDLED INDUSTRY EVENT
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amMADISON Avenue is grumbling about the price tag to gain entrée to Advertising Week, a series of luncheons, panels and events that aspires to be the ad industry equivalent of...
CLARKE SHOWS HOW CAP FITS
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amTHE institutional hysteria revolving around Bob Clarke's $1.9 million offer sheet to Ryan Kesler is, in a word, hysterical. The abundant ignorance displayed by those in the industry who have...
DAWES HAS SHOT TO MAKE RANGERS
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amThe Rangers have a total of 16 days on the ice from the opening of camp through their final exhibition game, then another four days of preparation before opening the...
MCKNIGHT MOVES - INJURY-WRECKED 2005 INSPIRED ND RECEIVER
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amSOUTH BEND, Ind. - Rhema McKnight watched the rebirth of Notre Dame football from the sidelines. He suffered in silent anguish as USC, the power team from his home state,...
'CHICK MATE - JETS HOPE TO CHESS-BUMP AT BILL'S EXPENSE
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amMANNING versus Manning is over with. Enter Belichick versus Mangini, mentor versus apprentice. That's the sexy headline today, in the Jets' home opener against the Patriots at Giants Stadium. Eric...
TORRE'S FALL PHILOSOPHY EGOS ASIDE
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amJoe Torre faces the issue of so many men, so little time. He wants to amass as much information as possible in formulating his postseason batting order. However, while his...
NO WORRIES - WILLIE: PEDRO DID PRETTY WELL, ACTUALLY
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES PITTSBURGH - Willie Randolph wasn't that alarmed about Pedro Martinez's start on Friday night. The manager is viewing the pitcher's outing differently. "I thought he did pretty well,...
HE'S OUR MAN - WILLIE: PEDRO WILL PITCH GAME 1 IN PLAYOFFS
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES PITTSBURGH - Yesterday Willie Randolph confirmed that even if Pedro Martinez is not pitching well going into the playoffs, he will still pitch Game 1 as long as...
TORRE CREED: EGOS ASIDE
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amJOE Torre faces the issue of so many men, so little time. He wants to amass as much information as possible in formulating his postseason batting order. However, while his...
IRISH SURPRISE; MICHIGAN ROLLS AT NOTRE DAME
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amMichigan 47Notre Dame 21 SOUTH BEND, Ind. - Midway through the second quarter yesterday against Michigan, Notre Dame faced desperation time. The Fighting Irish had to score . . ....
KID ANGLERS HALL BOUND
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amPARENTS who are always quick to show you photos of their kids now have a new way to share fish tales and pictures of their favorite little anglers. The Recreational...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amMANHATTAN *** An 18-year-old mother was being questioned because her 3-month-old daughter died after being found in vomit-filled bucket, police sources said. Police were called to an SRO at 111...
BX. MAN KILLS STEPSON: COPS
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amA 54-year-old man who shot and killed his stepson at a Bronx social club was taken into custody yesterday by cops after the victim allegedly made a dramatic "dying declaration,"...
WEAKNESS WON'T WIN
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amWHEN President Bush said the War on Terror would be difficult, he wasn't kidding: Ever since the invasion of Iraq, critics have said our pectoral-flexing has enraged our enemies and...
HEROIC RESCUE; FIREFIGHTER SAVES B'KLYN GRANDPA
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amA heroic firefighter rushed into a burning house last evening and dragged an elderly Brooklyn man to safety. "I was just doing my job," said Christopher Gaby, 37, of Ladder...
BODEGA BIG PROBED AS A CARD SHARK
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amThe Bronx DA is investigating a prominent business leader over the alleged theft of thousands of dollars from international calling-card companies. At least four companies claim José Fernandez, the politically...
COMING HOME; YANKS ON BRINK OF AL EAST TITLE AFTER BOSOX SPLIT
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amGAME 1Red Sox 5Yankees 2 GAME 2Yankees 7Red Sox 5 The only question surrounding the Yankees' march to their 27th World Series title next month focuses on starting pitchers. And...
OUR TECH TESTER TIES ONE ON; ANKLET TRACKS BOOZE LEVEL
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amAn alcohol-detecting anklet being considered for use by the city Department of Probation to monitor drunken-driving dopes is a real buzz kill. Within a few hours of a Post test...
HILL: KILL-BUSH FLICK 'MAKES ME SICK'
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amSen. Hillary Clinton joined the chorus yesterday, calling a controversial movie in which President Bush is assassinated "despicable" - the same word that Bush's father, ex-President George H.W. Bush, used...
HARLEM COP KILLS MAN IN GUN CHASE
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amPolice fatally shot an 18-year- old Harlem man running with a gun in his hand early yesterday after he refused orders to stop, officials said. Mingo Kenneth Mason was shot...
THIS WEEK'S DVDS
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amMy Name Is Earl: Season One 3 ½ STARS Fox, $49.98 There's a reason "Earl" picked up four Emmys this year: It's one of the rare TV comedies that combines...
SHARP ATTACK - ACUPUNCTURE MAY FIX WHAT NEEDLES YOUR PET
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amFOR weeks, on and off, my beloved brindle pit bull Britannia Tige, a k a B, had been experiencing, shall we say, incontinence issues. Despite being on a frequentwalk schedule...
ERASE THE IDEA OF WRITING MOVES FIRST
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amERASERS were headed for oblivion until Su Doku made them indispensable. But a new rule for tournament chess players may make them illegal, if there's a way to enforce it....
WALCOTT FUELS FORT HAMILTON
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amFort Ham. 44 New Dorp 22 Kadeem Walcott rushed for more than 1,000 yards as a junior to lead Fort Hamilton to the PSAL title. So head coach Vince Laino...
YASHIN TAKES LEFT TURN WITH ISLES
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amYARMOUTH, Nova Scotia - Alexei Yashin played exclusively on left wing yesterday in the first live game scrimmage of Islanders camp, opening yesterday's bluewhite game on a line with Mike...
SOX HURLER BECK ON TOP THIS TIME
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amOn Aug. 19, Josh Beckett summed up his start against the Yankees as "brutal." He walked nine men and allowed nine earned runs in 52/3 innings. Thus, his word choice...
WATCH 4 THE CLOSING DOORS - SUBWAY SERIES WOULD BE 7TH HEAVEN
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amI DON'T like to gloat, I really don't. However, in honor of a legion of emailers (mostly out-of-town rubes, but still) who labeled me a homer (and worse) after predicting...
WANG NUMBER - YANK ACE ALLOWS 9 HITS IN LOSS TO SOX
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amRED SOX 5 YANKEES 2 Chien-Ming Wang may not be Joe Torre's choice to start the first game of the ALDS. But that's not the way to bet. Torre likely...
IDEAL SCENARIO: WON & DONE
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amPITTSBURGH - Since the Phillies won yesterday, that kept the Mets from winning yesterday. But they still had a shot last night. The Mets' magic number was at one for...
AMAZIN'S BORED WITH SCOREBOARD-WATCHING
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amPITTSBURGH - You may have spent your day differently yesterday. You may have been wearing out the refresh button on your computer if you happen to be a Mets fan,...
OSI ISN'T DOUBTING THOMAS
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES PHILADELPHIA - A classic speed vs. size confrontation takes place this afternoon on the line of scrimmage, where a pair of Pro Bowlers go at it when the...
JETER, PAPI TALK IT OUT
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amA chance meeting in the hallway outside the Yankees' clubhouse yesterday morning resulted in Derek Jeter and David Ortiz talking for about seven minutes, The Post has learned. While Ortiz...
WILLIE: PEDRO MY MAN IN GAME ONE
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES PITTSBURGH - Yesterday Willie Randolph confirmed that even if Pedro Martinez is not pitching well going into the playoffs, he will still pitch Game 1 as long as...
HC MUST LET IT GO
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amINGRATE that he is to have deserted a guy who once left the Jets in the lurch two days after agreeing to be their head coach, Eric Mangini will not...
'HIT' A JOKE: SITTER - WHO'D KILL FOR $50?'
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amThe woman charged with trying to take a Staten Island woman's daughter she was obsessed with by hiring a "hit man" to kill the mom for $50, said yesterday she...
PILLS MADE ME A 'RAGING' GAMBLER - AILING DIRECTOR SUES MED MAKERS
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amA film director who got his start on the set of the Oscar-winning film "Raging Bull" says a drug designed to soothe the effects of Parkinson's disease led him on...
LAWYERS' FIELD DAY WITH BILL; COACH MUST TESTIFY IN DIVORCE
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amA judge has thrown New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick for a loss - allowing divorce lawyers to grill the gridiron guru on his alleged relationship with a New Jersey...
CAFFEINE FIX TO REMEMBER
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amFive cups of coffee a day might keep memory loss away. Researchers at Byrd Alzheimers Institute in Florida say they have discovered that long-term intake of caffeine reduces the risk...
BLACKOUT'S OT PRICE: $2.5M
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amThe blackout that kept some Queens neighborhoods in the dark for 10 sweaty days in July cost the city more than $2.5 million in overtime, according to Comptroller William Thompson's...
'DAD': ANNA KEEPS ME FROM BABY; FOTOG SAYS GRIEVING SMITH CUT ALL TIES
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amThe man who claims to be the father of Anna Nicole Smith's newborn daughter says the blond bombshell ran off to the Bahamas to give birth to keep their child...
MCG: HOW I KEPT MY SKELETONS CLOSETED
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amFormer New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey's gay sex life blossomed as an eighth-grader and continued with trysts in seedy Times Square sex shops and at an abandoned synagogue in Washington,...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amThe tooth fairy should have kept these. Two whale teeth with hand-carved etchings of ships, bought for 20 cents at an estate sale, were sold 10 years later - for...
HOT LIST - WHAT WE'RE OBSESSED WITH THIS WEEK
September 17, 2006 | 4:00am1 Underwear (please!) Perhaps embarrassed by her grody "Firecrotch" nickname, Lindsay Lohan's gone bald eagle. How do we know? Intrepid photographers caught her sans-knickers twice in two weeks - attempts...
VINCENT ON THE GOGH
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amVINCENT van Gogh - the tortured Dutch artist better known to many for cutting off his ear than for his remarkable art - is subject of a mini fest at...
NEW DINOSAUR SINGS FOR 'BARNEY 'CAST
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amIT'S been a long time since "Barney & Friends," the durable children's television show, has seen a new dinosaur. Not quite a Jurassic period, but a good 13 years. Fans...
YANKS TASTE JOSH OF OLD
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amOn Aug. 19, Josh Beckett walked nine Yankees and allowed nine earned runs in 52/3innings, repeatedly calling his outing "brutal." He used the word so much, it was as if...
HOLD THE ZITO - YANKS, METS NOT INTERESTED IN A'S LEFTY
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amDON'T believe the hype, the speculation or the gossip. The Yankees and Mets have almost no interest in pursuing Barry Zito as a free agent. The buzz all year has...
AMERICAN WAY - HOW TEAM USA CAN BRING HOME THE CUP
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amTOM Lehman's task since being named captain of the U.S. Ryder Cup team more than a year ago has been to halt a losing skid that has seen the Americans...
ALMOST HOME; YANKS ON BRINKOF AL EAST TITLE AFTER BOSOX SPLIT
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amGAME 1Red Sox 5Yankees 2 GAME 2Yankees 7Red Sox 5 The only question attached to the Yankees' march toward a 27th World Series title next month is about the starting...
WANDERIN BOY FINDS HIS WAY IN BROOKLYN
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amWanderin Boy, favored at even-money in field of six older horses going mile-and-eighth in 118th running of Grade 2, $150,000 Brooklyn Handicap, went right to front as expected under Javier...
DEVIL OF A COMEBACK
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amAdmitting "hindsight is 20-20," prodigal 1995 Devil second-rounder Nathan Perrott is back in New Jersey's camp. He hopes his surgically repaired forward vision is improved, too. "I was always cross-eyed,...
MENACE TO 'SOCIETY'; SCANDAL SHAME OF ASTOR'S ONLY SON
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amShe was a pillar of society. Now her only child could find himself a social pariah - and possibly at the center of a criminal case. Anthony Marshall, son of...
MET FAN: I WAS BAT-TERED BY IRAQ-BOUND YANK BOOSTERS
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amAttacked at party. A possible Subway Series is still a month away, but this season's Met-Yankee rivalry has already claimed a victim. A Met fan shouting support for his team...
GOING TO BAT FOR BEAU; BABE BACKS YANK CARL IN CRASH FLAP
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amThe sexy girlfriend of embattled Yankee pitcher Carl Pavano defended him yesterday, saying his car crash last month was an unfortunate accident involving no secrecy. Gia Allemand, 22, denied she...
REEL GOOD - LINDA STASI PREVIEWS THIS WEEK'S BEST MOVIES
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amTHE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962) Saturday,8 p.m.,TCM Before there was the whiz-bang remake, there was the classic Frank Sinatra original in which a Korean War vet is brainwashed into becoming a...
STUNTED GROWTH - YES, ANY GIRL CAN FALL IN LOVE WITH A 'JACKASS'
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amWhat can I say, I'm a sucker for a man with a dead fish in his butt. Or a steak, a lit bottle rocket, a 6-inch centipede. . . Ever...
FRENCH FANTASIES - GALLIC FILMMAKERS TAKE THE LEAD IN VISUAL STYLE
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amFrench director Christian Volckman would like to thank this summer's crop of cutesy, mediocre cartoon films for making Friday's "Renaissance" such a standout in comparison. "Americans come along with their...
ROCK OF FAITH - CHRISTIAN BANDS NOW A CROSSOVER MIRACLE
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amNOT long ago, a rock star acknowledging his Christianity was akin to a saint bathing in meat tenderizer before being tossed to the lions. Everyone would pounce, deriding his music...
THIS WEEK'S CDS
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amELTON JOHN "The Captain and the Kid" (three stars) Interscope/Rocket THE nostalgia machine is going to have to wait before it retreads the Elton John catalog. For now, the 60-year-old,...
TV REPORTERS CODDLE MUSLIM-AMERICANS
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amOVER the last five years, you've likely seen similar interviews conducted by TV newspersons countless times. Roughly, they go like this: Muslim-Americans are seen and heard to complain about their...
BETTER GET REAL ABOUT REALTY
September 17, 2006 | 4:00amDear John: I'm in my mid-20s and am thinking of investing in real estate. I want to liquidate my 401k and/or IRA so I can use it to invest in...