Carlos Delgado is so happy with the Mets that he doesn’t want to leave New York.

Delgado decided against filing a trade demand, the Mets said Monday, preferring to stick with the team that took him to the playoffs for the first time in his big league career.

Players who file trade demands become free agents unless dealt by the following March 15, but they lose the remaining guaranteed money in their contracts. Delgado is owed $14.5 million next year and $16 million in 2008. The Mets have a $12 million option for 2009 that carries a $4 million buyout, but they have until five days after the 2008 World Series to decide on it.

“He wants to be a Met for the rest of his career,” Minaya said. “I’m hopeful that at some point in time we will exercise that option. Right now we feel it’s not the right time.” - SI

“A New York Giants defense already thinned by injuries suffered another setback Monday morning when an MRI and a CAT scan confirmed that left end Michael Strahan sustained a sprain to the ligament connecting the Lisfranc joint of his right foot during Sunday’s victory over the Houston Texans.”

- ESPN

Julia Keane graduated last spring with a two-year associate’s degree and promptly had four job offers at around $60,000-plus each.

“I didn’t have to work too hard to get my job,” admits the mother of two, 36, of Pleasantville, N.Y. “There are so many positions out there. You send out your résumé, you get calls.”

Keane is a registered nurse, currently one of the most sought-after health-care professions due to a nationwide shortage.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that registered nurses will be the fastest-growing industry nationwide for the next five years.

Demand is still outpacing supply, with over a million U.S. vacancies expected by 2012. A 2002 New York State survey, the most recent of its kind, found 3,700 vacancies in city hospitals and 20,000 statewide.

“Every hospital has some vacancies,” says Ronald Keller, director of surgical nursing services at NYU Medical Center.

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