October 1, 2008
BALLPARK TOURS ANGEL STADIUM
Kernan is out here in Anaheim for the Red Sox-Angels series, far away from chill of the Northeast. In the continuing Ballpark Tours series, here's a look at Angel Stadium.Get...
More details on Santana
The Mets just released a statement from GM Omar Minaya shedding more light on Johan Santana's knee injury and subsequent surgery: "Johan's exit physical, standard for all players, took place...
Deal of the Day-Old Navy
Nothing goes with this season's detailed cardigans and slouchy blazers like a bow blouse. It's definitely shed it's 9-5 secretary look with its modern makeover.And Old Navy has this sleevless...
Rangers 'C'omeback Win
By BRETT CYRGALISJust give the guy the 'C' already.If there was any dispute as to who should be wearing the title of captain on this Rangers team (and there was),...
Deal of the Day-Urban Outfitters
Get your fall basics ready to go and pick up a few more while you're at it--Like this Kimchi Blue Sweater Cardigan.The soft knit long sweater will be great with...
Coverage in The Post: 10/1
In response to the ridiculous talk-radio rantings of Mike Francesa, colleague Mike Vaccaro writes that trading David Wright or Jose Reyes -- or both -- would be a truly boneheaded...
Normal wear and tear for Johan
According to a source close to Johan Santana, the torn meniscus in his left knee that required arthroscopic surgery today was the result of "normal wear and tear" and not...
Box Office: Too Many Movies Chasing Not Enough Dollars
An anonymous distributor quoted by Variety is calling it a "train wreck.'' An apparently unprecedented seven films are opening in wide release on Friday, and it's not going to be...
Tom Clancy's EndWar promises WMD
For realz! Look, there's proof in this here trailer. It's one of eight that Ubisoft will be posting until the game streets on Nov. 4.For those not in the know,...
Do you like survival horror games?
Better question: Do you know someone who doesn't like them?Good news for EA. It seems that "Dead Space," which finally hits stores on Oct. 14 for Xbox 360 and PS3...
NEXT UP: GIANTS
The Giants lost their top receiver during their bye week. The Seahawks got their best two back. Deion Branch was expected to miss nine months after having reconstructive knee surgery,...
A Bunch of Stuff
By Fred KerberToday is like a Jeoprdy round. Odds and ends, bits and pieces, here and there, potpourri , this and that and The Civil War. Josh Boone sat down...
Marbury still must prove it
By MARC BERMANSARATOGA SPRINGS - Mike D'Antoni still won't commit to Stephon Marbury and made subtle hints that Marbury's attitude at training camp will be as important as his game....
Favre AFC Player of Week
Brett Favre was named AFC Offensive Player of the Week for games played the fourth week of the 2008 season (Sept. 28-29), the NFL announced today. In his 257th consecutive...
Santana has knee scoped
It turns out that Johan Santana's classic pitching performance last Saturday came despite torn meniscus in his left knee. Santana had the injury successfully repaired today and will be ready...
SANTANA HAS KNEE SURGERY
As if Johan Santana's performance on three days' rest wasn't impressive enough, word today is that the Mets' ace left-hander did it with a serious knee injury. The Mets announced...
COPS MAKE ARREST IN ARMORED CAR HEIST
It was an inside job. A guard who works for the Dunbar Armored Car Co. was busted today on charges of being the brazen thief who snuck up behind another...
NEW YORK HAS PLAYOFF PRESENCE
Joe Torre is preparing the Dodgers for a postseason matchup with the Cubs while the Yankees are setting up early-October tee times for the first time in 14 years. Torre...
BROOKLYN WOMAN KILLED IN HOME INVASION
A single mother was shot to death in Brooklyn this morning after an intruder broke into her first floor apartment and marched her upstairs to her landlord, a well-to-do local...
Rooting for the Mob?
APItalian soccer authorities opened an inquiry on Tuesday into alleged Mafia pressure on the Palermo soccer team.The Italian Football Federation will investigate possible influence on market moves by the Sicilian...
Manningham still heaving
By BRIAN LEWISWith Plaxico Burress suspended, Mario Manningham was hoping to recover from the flu quickly enough to get some real playing time this weekend against Seattle. But as of...
CASHMAN, PINIELLA, GIRARDI
1. Brian Cashman agreed to a three-year contract to return as Yankee GM, and you could have made a pretty strong case either way on the decision. Cashman has had...
Dinner with Donnie
By MARC BERMANSARATOGA SPRINGS - President Donnie Walsh took the Knicks beat writers out to dinner at an Italian restaurant last night on Broadway here in Saratoga, reinstalling a Knick...
PALIN WINS HEARTS WHILE BIDEN WINS MINDS, POLL SHOWS
A majority of voters believes Joe Biden will win tomorrow night's vice-presidential debate - but an overwhelming number said Sarah Palin will come across as the more likeable, according to...
MAC'S SURPRISE WEAPON: BUBBA
WASHINGTON - John McCain unveiled a new ad yesterday quoting a surprising figure slamming Democrats for the country's economic mess - Bill Clinton. The ad credits McCain with pushing to...
METS' SHEAMFUL RETREAT
THE ISSUE: The closing of Shea Stadium at the conclusion of the Mets' heartbreaking season. In the first eight years of Joan Payson's founding ownership of the Mets, we got...
NEWMAN'S OWN LEGACY: ICON OF A GENERATION
THE ISSUE: The death of Hollywood great, entrepreneur and philanthropist, Paul Newman. It was with great sadness that I read of the passing of Paul Newman ("Paul Newman, 1925-2008," Sept....
IMPARTIAL? VP-DEBATE HOST PENS BOOK LAUDING OBAMA
TOMORROW, PBS anchor Gwen Ifill will serve as moderator for the first and only vice-presidential debate. But there is nothing "moderate" about where Ifill stands on Barack Obama. She's so...
RESCUE-BILL FIASCO: THE 'PUBLIC' PROBLEM
His name was George F. Babbitt. He was 46 years old now, in April 1920, and he made nothing in particular, neither butter nor shoes nor poetry, but he was...
EXTERMINATE THAT PLAGUE OF PIRATES
SOMALI pirates got a shock last week: The ship they seized carried dozens of Russian-built tanks, along with a wealth of heavy weapons and ammo. It was more than they'd...
BAD GAMBLES
John McCain has been known to brag that he "likes to gamble." Nobody would question that now, after his string of flashy maneuvers to maintain interest in his campaign as...
A NEW LOW FROM THE POLITICAL CLASS
ON Sunday, House GOP leader John Boehner gave his considered opinion on the $700 billion Wall Street bailout plan: It's a "crap sandwich," he said, but he was going to...
LAST SUPPER: EEL
The meal eaten in Leonardo da Vinci's famous Last Supper was not bread or lamb as previously thought, but slices of eel garnished with orange slices. That's the opinion of...
SUE THE PLO!
Americans injured in terrorist attacks in Israel and relatives of people killed in those attacks can go forward with a class-action lawsuit against the Palestine Liberation Organization, a judge ruled...
BLADES OF GORY
These amazing X-rays tell a stunning story of survival - in which a 16-year-old boy somehow lived through a horrifying attack by a thug who plunged a knife into his...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK- Midday Nos. Tue.: 102; Lucky Sum: 3 / Midday Win-4 Tue.: 6622; Lucky Sum: 16 / Evening Nos. Tue.: 556; Lucky Sum: 16 / Evening Win-4 Tue.: 4247;...
BACK FROM THE DEPTHS OF SELL
What a difference a day makes. Congressional leaders, President Bush and the two senators vying to succeed him aggressively moved yesterday to resurrect the stalled $700 billion financial rescue package...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
BrooklynA middle-aged man assaulted his estranged girlfriend in East Flatbush, authorities said yesterday. Randy Carddock, 44, allegedly punched the 40-year-old woman in the face on East 34th Street near Avenue...
WEINER IN THE RACE TO DEFEAT THREE-PEAT
Rep. Anthony Weiner said yesterday he will take on Mayor Bloomberg if he runs for a third term, while two other leading Democrats were on the fence. "Anthony is celebrating...
CABLEVISION VS. CANCER
James Dolan, the feisty Cablevision CEO, said yesterday his company will launch a public-awareness campaign to support the fight against pancreatic cancer. The campaign will be run in conjunction with...
MR. MET LOUT IS BANNED
The fan who lost his head with ball-headed mascot Mr. Met has been fined and banned from the Mets' new ballpark. Christian Hansen, 32, pleaded guilty yesterday to disorderly conduct...
MODEL DEFENDS HIS SISSY FIT
A straight male model who filed suit after steamy pictures of him ran in a gay magazine says he's no homophobe. Benjamin Massing, 20, filed suit against photographer Rick Day...
FLAMER AFTER 'HOSE'
Talk about a flaming come-on! A weirdo tried to find a hot time at an Upper East Side firehouse Sunday by tiptoeing into the building, waking up a groggy battalion...
'PICKING' THE LOCK
The best racks in the city are on display on Astor Place. Bike racks, that is. Nine new designs for places to park bikes were unveiled. They include a Y-shaped...
KID, 11, A TUTOR OF TYKES
Queens sixth-grader Daniel Mosquera was so persuasive on the subject of environmental awareness last year that he won over a 9-year-old who initially "had no idea what global warming was"...
GOV REVS UP 'RENT A ROAD' PLAN
ALBANY - Gov. Paterson wants to lease state assets that could include the Thruway, the Tappan Zee Bridge, and the lottery to private contractors in order to trim costs and...
$6M SUIT VS. 'SICK' ESTEE
A Long Island cancer patient is suing cosmetics giant Estee Lauder for $6 million, claiming managers retaliated against him for a previous lawsuit he filed against them. Dan Russo, 48,...
BLOOMY BIDS FOR TRIPLE PLAY
It's once, twice, three times for Bloomberg! Just as yesterday's Post suggested, Mayor Bloomberg plansto announce tomorrow that he'll seek to change the city's term-limits law so he can run...
TASER MOM: I COULD HAVE SAVED SON
The grieving mother of a disturbed Brooklyn man who fell to his death after being Tasered by police said yesterday the tragedy might have been prevented if cops had let...
UDDER MADNESS
Holy cow, this Ohio woman is an udder disgrace! Michele Allen, 32, will spend the next month in jail after admitting to a wild drunken weekend dressed in this silly...
TBS ADS TO MET MISERY
Wright place. Wrong time. As if dejected Met fans didn't have enough to moan about, an oversized Times Square billboard rubs salt into the recurring wound with a playoff promotional...
CHEAP LAPTOPS BOOST CITY KIDS
Parents at schools that have started experimenting with low-cost laptop computers said the technology has already provided a learning boost to their kids. Developed as a cheap educational tool for...
NY HOME-$$ BUBBLE BURSTS
Your 401(k) retirement-account balance isn't the only asset tanking. The price of single-family homes in the city and suburbs in the 12-month period ending in July dropped a staggering 7.4...
'SLUR' BOOST FOR JAYSON
Prosecutors seeking to press manslaughter charges against former NBA star Jayson Williams suffered a setback yesterday when an appeals court ruled defense lawyers deserve to learn more about an investigator's...
$330,000 HEIST
Why bother asking for a bank loan? A brazen thief sneaked up behind an armored-car guard at a Manhattan bank yesterday morning and snatched her gun and a bag containing...
B'KLYN GIRL, 16, SLAIN AT HOME
A 16-year-old Brooklyn girl was viciously stabbed to death in her apartment yesterday and police want to question a female cousin, who law-enforcement sources said had recently moved in with...
STENCH 101 AT QNS. HS
They're not the first students to say that school stinks. But the teens at Christ the King Regional HS in Queens aren't griping about too much homework - they're fuming...
HOUSE-PROUD YANKS RESTART TOURS
Just when you thought Yankee Stadium was closed forever, fans will have another chance, starting today, to tour the House That Ruth Built, The Post has learned. The Yankees have...
RULING IN '61 CASE KNOWS NO LIMITS
ALBANY - The legal debate over changing the city's term-limits law may be over before it begins. It was settled in January 1961. That's when the Court of Appeals -...
HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS READY FOR DVD WAR
Hollywood studios are going to court over a new technology from Seattle-based RealNetworks that allows consumers to copy DVDs to their computers. A group that includes Disney, Paramount, Sony Pictures,...
WELLS FARGO GOES SLOW AT BANK FIRE SALES
Wells Fargo Chairman Richard Kovacevich's prudence in snatching up rival banks whipsawed by the credit crisis might have cost him choice opportunities to get bigger at fire sale prices. While...
HEDGE HELLFIRE
As Wall Street burns, smoke can now be seen billowing from its neighbor to the north: Greenwich, Conn., the world's hedge-fund capital. With once-highflying funds seeing their performance worsening, investors...
WTC: TOWERING PROBLEMS
LARRY Silverstein wants to keep building his three World Trade Center towers no matter what the current market conditions, one of his executives says - and the real-estate industry is...
NJ NETS: BUY NOW PAY LATER
Stores tout "buy now, pay later" to sell everything from laptops and furniture to jewelry and shoes. So why not season tickets to watch the New Jersey Nets? With consumers...
FEY EYES BIG PAYDAY
PUBLISHERS have been chasing Tina Fey to write a book for years. But now that the "30 Rock" and former "Saturday Night Live" star is the doppelganger to Republican vice...
CHEMICAL REACTION
Billionaire Leon Black's experiment with the chemical industry seems to have blown up in his face. After months of fighting, the co-founder of private-equity giant Apollo Management was handed a...
AIR SILVER
Nobody wastes money like Albany pols, but here's a new wrinkle: New York taxpayers may have just bought Shelly Silver a free Hawaiian vacation. That's the upshot of a newspaper...
19,000 SMOKES A DAY?
Say this for Mayor Mike and his prohibitive cigarette taxes: At least he wants to collect the revenue. Hizzoner has filed suit against eight tobacco retailers on the Poospatuck Indian...
SUN SET
Take a moment to note the passing of the New York Sun, shuttered yesterday after a brave, against-all-odds run of 6 ½ years. When the paper began publishing, on April...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A Iowa City man was charged with assault after he wrapped his arms around a cop and told him he "needed a hug." Not surprisingly, the 21-year-old was drunk, and...
YOUTUBE STAR MICHAEL BUCKLEY PICKS HIS OWN VIDEO FAVES
Most viral videos leave you muttering, "Can I have that 4 minutes of my life back?" Which is why we asked the popular Internet personality behind "What The Buck" for...
BUCK STARTS HERE
MICHAEL Buckley is the Great White Hope of YouTube. Thirty-three years old, based in the middle of nowhere in Connecticut, freshly signed to an HBO development deal - and now...
SITCOM KID FINDS GOD
"THAT guy . . ." Kirk Cameron is shaking his head. "He's a bright man. It's just a shame." Cameron has just learned, via The Post, that he was a...
NAILIN' PALIN
LIVE from New York it's . . . Thursday night? The late-night comedy show that - thanks to the whackiest election campaign in a generation - is getting unprecedented attention...
KITT YOUR CAR
NOW anyone can have their own "Knight Rider" in their car - and they don't have to be wearing David Hasselhoff's leather pants. Radio Shack is offering a "Knight Rider"...
BLUSH 'MONEY'
IF you've never been the same since "Dynasty" died and "Dallas" self-destructed (and even if you weren't yet born when those over-the-top nighttime soaps were in their prime, er, time),...
STARR REPORT
"Guardian Angels" founder Curtis Sliwa tonight begins hosting a new three-hour radio show on a Boston station. Sliwa has been hired to host from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. on...
NEWMAN-ATHON
YOU'LL want to lay in a supply of Newman's Own popcorn on Oct. 12 when Turner Classic Movies runs a 24-hour marathon of movies as a tribute to the late...
BLAKE SHOW
NOT that we'd ever spoil an epsiode of "Gossip Girl" for you, but . . . When Serena (played by Blake Lively) showed in Times Square yesterday, kissing a man...
GRIM OPTIONS BUT NO BAILOUT
AN austere and grim portrait of a dysfunctional family in rural Mississippi, "Ballast" sounds like one of those snoozers for which the Sundance Film Festival is famous. But while this...
OMIGOD!
WE know there is no God because Bill Maher is not immediately struck dead when he opines in his atheist documentary "Religulous" that he'd no sooner swear on the King...
BOOZE-FUELED NIGHT LASTS A ROUND TOO LONG
'IT'S bar talk," explains one of the characters in Stephen Belber's chatty new drama, and for 85 minutes that talk flows fast and furiously. Concerning the fateful encounter between two...
THE MIMI NOBODY KNOWS
LAST week, I was pleased to draw attention to the "Mimi" award, a new prize meant to "nurture" play wrights that comes with a whopping cash prize of $200,000 (to...
GOO, GOO, BAD, BAD!
THERE'S popcorn on the plate with lamb "julep" at new Bloomingdale Road. It isn't a bar snack, but a $24 "main" dish. Welcome to Dining Out 2008, an ordeal that...
PLAY IT AGAIN
Triple Tony Award-nominee Raul Esparza dishes on his role in the Broadway revival of David Mamet's "Speed-the-Plow," how being Cuban helped make him an actor and what he sees in...
FLAMENCO QUEEN
You know your hot when world famous director Pedro Almodóvar doesn't want a party in his honor if you're not the entertainment. That was the case last summer when friends...
LATIN OUT LOUD
Nog heaven You don't have to wait until Christmas to have coquito. ABUELA COMPANY has teamed with a Puerto Rican family who has been developing their recipe for three generations...
DOGGY STYLE
The contributions of Latino rappers have often been overlooked - but no more. Next week, members of the influential rap group Cypress Hill, known for their hits "Insane in the...
THE INFLUENTIALS
The Post's annual list of the Top 25 New York Latino movers and shakers This year's list of powerbrokers is full of breathtaking talent - Latinos who have spectacularly transformed...
ON THE ISSUES
Both candidates have detailed plans for a litany of issues facing the nation. For more, check out their sites, barackobama.com and johnmccain.com. Senator Barack Obama: Economy: Cut income taxes by...
FEELING THE CRUNCH
If you think that the most important issue to Latino voters in this presidential election is immigration -think again. It's the economy, estúpido! Like non-Hispanic Americans, the nation's current financial...
MANGINI STANDS UP FOR SMITH
Coach Eric Mangini yesterday stood firmly behind safety Eric Smith, who was fined $50,000 and suspended for a game by the NFL for his helmet-to-helmet hit on Cardinals receiver Anquan...
FAVRE ENJOYING TIME IN NEW YORK
Brett Favre couldn't help himself. Having fun is in his nature and he was having a ball on Sunday, throwing touchdown passes around Giants Stadium the way he used to...
DEVS' UNDERACHIEVERS LOOK TO REBOUND
The Devils' brass is bubbling. With cause. They are loaded with important players poised for comebacks from disappointing seasons - and made two major additions up front - after they...
$ALES PITCH IS VITAL FOR DEEP CC FISHING
EIGHT years ago, the top start ing pitcher in the free-agent market had no desire to be a New Yorker or a Yankee. None. Then, in early November 2000, the...
JOBA SAYS HIS SHOULDER IS FINE
Joba Chamberlain revealed yesterday that he had problems getting loose on Sunday in Boston. But he says his shoulder's fine. "We're good," Chamberlain said outside Yankee Stadium. "Everything's been good...
GM SIGNS THREE-YEAR PACT TO STAY IN BRONX
According to industry sources, Brian Cashman could have left The Bronx for Seattle or Philadelphia and was atop the list of another team that is going to soon have a...
'MAD' WORLD AROUND GIANTS
FOR anyone in need of perspective, insight or some good ol' fun, there is no better place to stop inside the Giants locker room than in front of Sam Madison's...
RANGERS FACE COMBINATION QUESTIONS
If coach Tom Renney is thinking about scuttling the Scott Gomez-Chris Drury and Brandon Dubinsky-Nikolai Zherdev tandems in order to present a more balanced lineup featuring Drury in the middle...
HONDO: MR. OCTOBERFEST
The White Sox hosed the Twins last night, which means Hondo heads into the postseason with 850 niedenfuers in the drawer. What's that, you say it should be 800, not...
PUT '07 SWEEP OUT OF MINDS
PHILADELPHIA - Shane Victorino cut the questioner off before the sentence was even finished. "I hate talking about last year," the Phillies center fielder said. That's because last year ended...
SPORTS SHORTS
MLB: Lidge, Lee make comebackBrad Lidge has a shot to cap his perfect season with a World Series ring. Cliff Lee should be ready to clear room in the trophy...
RED OCTOBER SEEMS 'STRANGE' WITHOUT YANKS
ANAHEIM - This postseason really is different for the Red Sox. There's no Manny and no Yankees in the battle. "It's definitely strange not having the Yankees in the playoffs,"...
DANKS, THOME LIFT CHISOX INTO PLAYOFFS
CHICAGO - The Red Line Series became a possibility last night. A tantalizing Cubs-White Sox Fall Classic is feasible now because the team that lives by the long ball won...
CURRY MAY MISS CAMP
SARATOGA SPRINGS -Eddy Curry missed yesterday's first two practices of training camp and could be out for the weeklong training camp here after being felled by a bacterial infection Monday...
D'ANTONI GIVING KNICKS POSITIVE IDENTITY
SARATOGA SPRINGS - For one day in this eclectic upstate town, the Knicks looked like a team again - a team with an identity, plan and style. It's Mike D'Antoni's...
FLOYD'S STUNNED BY METS' COLLAPSE
ST. PETERSBURG - For his former teammates' sake, Cliff Floyd probably wouldn't mind wielding the first sledge hammer that helps transform Shea Stadium into a pile of rubble. Not again....
OLIVER BRACES HIMSELF FOR A 'TOUGH OFFSEASON'
The battery mates who started the final game of the Mets' season embraced outside of Shea Stadium yesterday, each headed back home to start the offseason - and each seemingly...
TRADING METS' CORE WOULD BE MISTAKE
CHICAGO - The visceral re action is understandable: Break the bums up. Take a hammer to the core of this Mets club that has inflicted back-to-back assault and battery on...
THORN: YOUNG, RETOOLED NETS PLAYOFF BOUND
There is no Jason Kidd, no Richard Jefferson, no top-to-bottom track record. But, to Nets president Rod Thorn, there still should be no reason to expect anything less than the...
CUTCLIFFE HAVIN' A DEVIL OF A TIME AT DUKE
AS A Football Writers of America Association board member, I get to cast a vote for the team of the week. Obviously, there was no shortage of candidates last week....
THE TOP 25 IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL
The Post's Top 25 In College Football
BROOKLYN GIRL, 16, SLAIN AT HOME
A 16-year-old Brooklyn girl was stabbed to death in her Brooklyn apartment today and police want to question her female cousin, who law-enforcement sources said had recently moved in with...
UDDER MADNESS
Holy cow, this Ohio woman is an udder disgrace! Michele Allen, 32, will spend the next month in jail after admitting to a wild drunken weekend dressed in this silly...
Hughes also headed to AFL
Earlier today we ran down a list of players headed to the Arizona Fall League from both the Mets and Yankees. However, it's been confirmed by Yankee officials that Phil...