October 28, 2005
LAY-UPS AND LARCENY
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amThe New York Knicks have a new advertising slogan: "Knicks Fans Know." Maybe they know who's making off with the life-size cutouts of the players that went up this week...
STEAK STOCKS GOING HUNGRY
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amSteakhouses may serve up juicy profits for their private-equity backers, but once they go public there seems to be little meat left on the bone. In August, famous New Orleans...
TOXIC MARTHA - HER TV PRODUCER BURNETT MAY LOSE BET ON STOCK
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amReality-television king Mark Burnett may have punched the wrong dance card with Martha Stewart - and could see a possible $62.2 million jackpot go up in smoke. Stewart's company yesterday...
ACCT. AT IPG HITS $1.83M
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amAfter twice restating its financial results, struggling ad giant Interpublic Group decided last year it needed a good accountant - a really good accountant, judging by the bonus he received....
HEVESI UNLEASHES A TIRADE AT CLASS-ACTION BIG
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amIn a rare public spanking, state fiscal watchdog Alan Hevesi called a lawyer in the WorldCom class-action case a self-promoting manipulator who makes up facts and overcharges. Hevesi's harsh attack...
THE SOURCE OF CONFUSION
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amTHE Source, the floundering bible of the hip-hop industry that has lost more than $11 million over the past four years, has failed to file state and federal income tax...
GLOOMY 'WEATHER MAN' SOAKED WITH SCORN
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amTAKE the basic elements of "American Beauty" (white-collar angst, sullen teens, a failed marriage, a gay subplot), hire a writer with the personality of Mike Tyson to reassemble them, and...
A ZORRO-FUL FOLLOW-UP
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amTHERE'LL likely be more Z's in the audience than on the screen during "The Legend of Zorro," a belated and belabored sequel to the delightful '98 hit that seems more...
JUDGING JIHAD JOURNEY
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amTHOUGH told from the view of Palestinian suicide bombers and featuring several anti-Israel speeches, "Paradise Now" won't be turning up on Hamas' 10-best list. You know how most films portray...
CARVED, COOKED & CUBED
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amASK three of Asia's most extreme filmmakers to contribute a short horror film each, and the result is, well, extreme. As in "Three . . . Extremes." The three-part anthology...
FOR SOME CUTTING HORROR, SEE 'SAW'
October 28, 2005 | 4:00am'SAW II" has teeth, and this house-of-horrors franchise has legs, though they're manacled to the radiator. Like "Saw," a surprise hit last fall, the sequel turns a low budget into...
VEY TO GO, STREEP
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amMERYL Streep is a hoot as an Upper West Side yiddishe mama shrink who discovers that one of her patients - shiksa Uma Thurman - is sleeping with her son...
BAT-TY BOOP - XENA BATTLES CREEPY CREATURES - AGAIN
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amFRESH from their riveting roles in that TV movie classic, "Locusts," Dr. Maddy Rierdon (Lucy Lawless, "Xena") and hubby Dan Dryer (Dylan Neal) are back to battle more revolting creatures...
LIFE OF THE 'PARDY - TRIVIA SHOW'S DVD GOES BEHIND SCENES
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amTHAT guy with the dark brown hair and brown mustache, bounding onstage for his first-ever "Jeopardy!" show, is none other than Alex Trebek. That image, from 1984, is one of...
1-RING CIRCUS IS NO. 1 WITH KIDS
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amFOR a wild, magical moment, the kids came to believe they were part of the show. At the Big Apple Circus - now playing in an intimate, single-ring big top...
SHOW OF THE YEAR - BEG, BORROW OR STEAL TO SEE B'WAY'S BEST; 'ODD' BLESS
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amSTEAL tickets if you can - the chemistry's still there. Burdened by nearly impossible expectations, Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick proved the right couple for Neil Simon's "The Odd Couple,"...
PETER INSPIRES CANCER SERIES
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amABC News is setting aside time during its evening newscast to combat lung cancer - with late "World News Tonight" anchor Peter Jennings firmly in mind. "Quit to Live: Fighting...
HEAR THEY GO!
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amTHE Go! Team play groovy, invigorating dance rock with enough pop energy to fuel a cheerleading squad. From Brighton, England, the team's began five years ago when Ian Parton, now...
THEATER BIG IS RED-FACED - ROCCO STRIKES OUT IN BASEBALL
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amMONEY, power, ego and real estate. They're engines of the theater industry, and they all have a role in a behind-the-scenes deal that's been hammered out between one of New...
STARR REPORT
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amIt's Cramer's 'Town' CNBC mouth-foamer Jim Cramer scored some big numbers Wednesday in the second of his "Town Hall" broadcasts that included a live audience and guest Donald Trump. Cramer's...
'APPRENTICE' BLOODBATH - TRUMP FIRES HALF OF TEAM
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amBEWARE the cobra! Donald Trump's cobra struck four times last night as four contestants were sacked simultaneously on "The Apprentice" on NBC. The cobra is the nickname that's been given...
MARY'S HOT PICK
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amThe funk meets the drunks, punks and hunks when the Rebirth Brass Band, the New Orleans musical tour de force, joins New York's Halloween tradition on Monday in a procession...
4 DEAD IN FUME HORROR - FAMILY SLAY-SUICIDE
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amAn online stock trader, his wife and their two small children were found dead from carbon-monoxide poisoning in the bedroom of their Manhattan apartment yesterday in an apparent murder-suicide, police...
WIDOWS TO FACE 'FRAGGER - FLY TO KUWAIT TO ATTEND HEARING FOR ARMY 'KILLER'
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amGrieving relatives of two Army Reserve officers from New York flew to Kuwait yesterday to stare down the National Guardsman charged with their murders in his first appearance in a...
YULE RIDE CHEAPER: MTA VOTE
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amStraphangers are getting a holiday treat: The MTA yesterday approved a package of discount goodies that will trim bus, subway and commuter train fares between Thanksgiving and New Year's. It's...
HILLARY RESCUES 9/11 FUNDS
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton convinced her Senate colleagues yesterday spare $125 million of aid for injured 9/11 workers from the budget chopping block. "Having this money reinstated will...
NUKES FOR ALLAH - SUNNI BOMB, SHIA BOMB
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amTHIS week the president of Iran told a student rally that Israel should be "wiped off the map." Always a crowd pleaser in Tehran, Mr. Ahmadinejad's call to exterminate Jews...
THE MIERS WITHDRAWAL: MISJUDGING DUBYA
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amA FEW weeks ago, some idiot wrote these words: "Bush will pull out of Iraq sooner than he'll withdraw the Miers nomination." That same idiot later wrote, "Unless unexpected news...
ISRAEL AVENGES 'FALAFEL' BOMBING
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amIsraeli forces killed a top Palestinian terrorist yesterday in the Gaza Strip and arrested a leader of Islamic Jihad on the West Bank - the opening salvos in what Prime...
TEXAS TYCOON, 81, IN COURT OVER SLICK BUCKS
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amA Texas oil tycoon, accused of paying millions in kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's regime in return for lucrative U.N. oil-for-food contracts, pleaded not guilty yesterday, as defense lawyers said they...
WIFE'S ASBESTOS WORK SUIT TOSSED
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - The state's highest court yesterday dismissed a case against the Port Authority brought by a woman who claims she got cancer from washing her husband's asbestos-laden work clothes....
NEWSWEEK EDITOR DIES FROM SUV HIT
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amOne of Newsweek's top editors has died from injuries he suffered earlier this week when he was accidentally struck by an SUV on the Upper West Side, the magazine announced...
DRIVER 'A CRAZY ASSASSIN' - MOM'S ANGUISH IN DOUBLE HIT-RUN THAT LEFT QUEENS TEEN BRAIN DEAD
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amThe mother of the Queens teen mowed down by a hit-and-run driver called the heartless motorist a "crazy assassin" yesterday as the family considered taking the boy off life support....
ROWER BODY FOUND - FRIENDS MOURN 'MENSCH'
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amPolice scuba divers found a body believed to be that of missing rower Jim Runsdorf in the Harlem River yesterday morning, at exactly the same time that the Manhattan real-estate...
CHARLES ON HEIR
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amIn his first U.S. TV interview in a decade, Prince Charles says he sometimes feels "dismissed" by his subjects as out of touch. "The most important thing is to be...
STENO'GRAFT'ER IN ILLEGAL JOBS
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amA Staten Island man who supervised court stenographers was busted for spending most of the time away from his office - moonlighting as a $200-a-day recorder for private lawyers, authorities...
SWEET NEWS YOU CAN BITE INTO
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amCandy may soon be good for your teeth. Long Island scientists have developed an enzyme that can be added to snacks and turn into a more powerful cavity fighter than...
COP SHOTS JUMP 10%
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amShootings involving NYPD officers have jumped nearly 10 percent this year - and the number of police bullets fired has leaped 43 percent because of three gun battles with armed...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amBROOKLYN * A diabetic shoplifter was arrested for swiping bottles of lotion and menacing a stockboy with a hypodermic needle in a Bedford-Stuyvesant store, authorities said yesterday. Sources said Debra...
U.N. OIL BOMBSHELL - HONCHOS BLASTED IN LITANY OF CORRUPT DEALS WITH SADDAM
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amThe United Nations was asleep at the switch while Saddam Hussein and more than 2,300 companies turned the oil-for-food program into a cesspool of mass corruption, an investigative report charged...
BUBBA TRUBBA - BLOOMY AND BILL IN PHOTO FREDDY DIDN'T WANT TO SEE
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amHere's the picture that's going to send Fernando Ferrer reaching for the Tums. One week after endorsing the Democratic mayoral candidate, former President Bill Clinton encountered Mayor Bloomberg at a...
GATSBY SLAY BEAU BACK
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amThe fugitive boyfriend of "Great Gatsby" murder victim Lisa Parisi was returned to New York yesterday to answer questions about her death. Edgar Sanchez, 34, took off to Ohio after...
HUNT'S ON FOR '90 L.I. COP-SLAYER
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amPolice are asking the public for help after receiving a fresh tip in the 15-year-old unsolved murder of an undercover narcotics cop who was blown up by a car bomb...
CAR DEALER GAVE STATE 'BUM $TEER'
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amA Queens used-car dealer bilked the state out of $1.2 million by charging sales tax and not passing it along to Albany, prosecutors charged yesterday. Mohammed Ishaque, 47, of Floral...
HAMPTONS' SCHEIDER WILL SAND & DELIVER
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amActor Roy Scheider and his neighbors yesterday were issued emergency permits to erect walls of sandbags in front of their oceanfront homes in Sagaponack in a bid to keep the...
NEW LESSON ON GAY BIAS
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amA city clampdown on gay-trashing in public schools could have all teachers taking a one-day training course on how to combat harassment of gay and lesbian students, The Post has...
FAT NICK INDICTED IN RACE BEAT
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amA grand jury yesterday voted to indict accused Howard Beach racial bat attacker Nicholas "Fat Nick" Minucci on 19 counts of assault as a hate crime, robbery and possession of...
STAR STORMS OVER ARREST
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amStar Jones went on TV yesterday to moan and groan about the arrest of her hubby Al Reynolds for driving with a suspended license - insisting it was much ado...
NEWLYWEDS SEMPER FI - MARINE NUPTIALS ON LEX
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amTwo leathernecks exchanged vows on Lexington Avenue yesterday in a sidewalk ceremony that featured a Marine color guard and a troupe of USO musicians. The unusual setting - at Lexington...
HOW THE BOOB HAS FALLEN - BIZARRE RIDE FOR DISGRACED LAP-DANCE CEO
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amStripper-loving CEO Rob McCormick looks more like a rumpled delivery boy than the high-rolling playboy who partied with a quarter-million dollars' worth of busty babes and booze as he takes...
SENATE: $8B VS. AVIAN FLU
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amAnxious about a possible bird-flu pandemic that could devastate America's people and its economy, the U.S. Senate yesterday approved nearly $8 billion to help the government stockpile vaccines and flu-fighting...
MIKE QUELLS LAST UNION FIRE WITH FDNY DEAL
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amLess than two weeks before Election Day, Mayor Bloomberg struck a deal on the last major union contract facing the city, announcing an agreement with firefighters that gives them a...
FERRER AD CALLS MIKE GAME FOR OLYMPICS, LAME FOR KIDS
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amFernando Ferrer launched a blistering TV ad attack yesterday - portraying Mayor Bloomberg as an out-of-touch globetrotter more interested in visiting foreign countries in pursuit of a failed Olympics bid...
DELI CLERK SLAIN - '79ó CANDLE' FEUD
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amA 19-year-old man standing in for a co-worker at a Queens deli was shot execution-style, possibly in revenge for an earlier dispute with a shoplifter over a 79-cent candle, police...
BYE, BYE, MIERS AS BID ENDS - '93 'PRO-ABORTION' SPEECH LAST STRAW
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday dropped his bid to boost pal Harriet Miers onto the Supreme Court because she didn't have the votes and conservatives were livid at a 1993...
KILLED AT MA'S - BROOKLYN GUNFIRE
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amA Brooklyn teen was gunned down as he stood on the sidewalk in front of his mother's apartment Wednesday night, cops said yesterday. "He was under my window, screaming my...
$5 MIL FOR REV.'S TEMPTATION OF MY WIFE - SPURNED HUBBY SUES CHURCH
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amA jilted husband yesterday sued ritzy Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church and its charismatic pastor for $5 million, calling the minister a sexual "predator" who seduced the other man's wife while...
CHURCH 'SCAMMER' BRAGGED OF FINDING HIS CALLING
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amEarly this year, Edwin Rodriguez rented an Inwood office and hung up a sign that read, "Rodriguez Investment Services." On either side of the lettering, there was a picture of...
RIDERS ARE $LIDERS IN PA VERDICT
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amVictims of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing are seeking a total of $1.8 billion in damages from the Port Authority - but the agency will only have to shell...
OSCAR & FELIX ARE CLEANING UP - 'ODD COUPLE' DRAWS $20M AS HOTTEST TICKET ON BROADWAY
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amCall it The Hot Couple. The sold-out revival of "The Odd Couple" starring Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane had its glittering premiere last night - and it's already the hottest...
JUDGMENT DAY FOR KEY PLAME GUYS
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Top White House aides Karl Rove and Lewis "Scooter" Libby may learn today if they've been indicted in the CIA-leak case - and Rove lined up a battle-hardened...
A GIANT WAKE FOR WELLINGTON
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amFriends, family members and former players joined regular-Joe Giant fans yesterday in mourning team owner Wellington Mara, remembering him as a man whose humility and integrity were the stuff of...
FOXY DRIVER PROBE - DA CHATS WITH VICTIM
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amManhattan prosecutors may be mulling a grand-jury probe into last year's West Houston Street hit-and-run accident involving Foxy Brown, her driver and an injured bicyclist. Victim Robert Herschenfeld, 38 -...
HUBBA-HUTTON - LUSCIOUS LAUREN BARES IT ALL AT 62
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amHere's Lauren Hutton at the age of 62 - looking hotter than most models do at 26. The super-sexy star, who's less than three years from picking up her Social...
$600G 'HOUSE' ARREST - 'ID SCAM' REALTY DEAL
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amA Queens man has been arrested for allegedly stealing a Manhattan man's identity and using it to buy a $600,000 Brooklyn home, The Post has learned. Michael Guerrier, 53, of...
KIN-SLAY SUSPECT BUSTED AT HOSP
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amA Jersey City man was arrested yesterday in connection with last month's slaying of his sister and two of her young children over a $20 debt, authorities said. Dwayne Wilson,...
HIT-RUN DRIVER 'A PARENT' - ARREST NEAR AS KIN OF BRAIN-DEAD VICTIM, 15, FACE AGONIZING CHOICE
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amThe hit-and-run driver who mowed down a 15-year-old boy on his way to a Queens high school may be the parent of a student who had just dropped his kid...
WIDOWS HEAD TO KUWAIT TO ATTEND SLAY HEARING FOR ARMY 'FRAGGER'
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amGrieving relatives of two Army Reserve officers from New York flew to Kuwait yesterday to stare down the National Guardsman charged with their murders in his first appearance in a...
ROWER'S BODY IS FOUND
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amPolice scuba divers found a body believed to be that of missing rower Jim Runsdorf in the Harlem River yesterday morning, at exactly the same time that the Manhattan real-estate...
LOU$Y POP SET TO DEAL - DEADBEAT MAY GO FREE
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amThe city's worst deadbeat dad - who spent 10 years on the lam - has been offered a plea deal by the feds that could allow him to walk free...
PARKS TO LIE IN HONOR AT CAPITOL
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Civil-rights heroine Rosa Parks will become the first woman to lie in honor in the Capitol Rotunda, under a resolution that is expected to be passed by Congress....
OSCAR & FELIX ARE CLEANING UP - SOLD-OUT 'ODD COUPLE' OPENS WITH MEGASTAR AUDIENCE
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amCall it "The Hot Couple." The sold-out revival of "The Odd Couple," starring Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane, had its glittering, star-studded premiere last night - delighting fans and wowing...
WAKE FOR WELLINGTON - TEARS FOR FOOTBALL PIONEER
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amFriends, family members and former players joined regular-Joe Giant fans yesterday in mourning team owner Wellington Mara, remembering him as a man whose humility and integrity were the stuff of...
JURY TO HEAR SPECTOR'S DAMNING WORDS
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - A judge dealt Phil Spector's defense a critical blow yesterday, ruling that jurors in his upcoming murder trial can hear that he "didn't mean to shoot" a...
STRONG WHIFF OF WORRY DOWNTOWN
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amA peculiar and mysterious smell enveloped lower Manhattan for several hours last night, sparking dozens of 311 calls, authorities said. Pedestrians around City Hall claimed there was an overpowering smell...
INDICTMENT LIKELY FOR VEEP'S MAN
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Lawyers in the CIA leak probe expect Vice President Cheney's top aide, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, to be indicted today for lying to a grand jury - but Bush...
COPS HUNT S.I. MAN IN SHOOT SPREE
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amA man went on a shooting spree last night on Staten Island, killing one woman and critically injuring another, in an apparent fit of rage against ex-girlfriends, police said. Cops...
BUST IN QUEENS BOUNCER SLAY
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amA 30-year-old Brooklyn man was arrested last night for allegedly shooting two court officers and a bouncer outside a Queens strip club last year, police said. Moises Valerio was busted...
SCAM A 'PIOUS' CRIME - CHURCH FOLK CHEATED
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amEarly this year, Edwin Rodriguez rented an Inwood office and hung up a sign saying, "Rodriguez Investment Services." On either side of the lettering was a picture of a hand...
SCHOOLS TARGET GAY BIAS - PLAN FOR TRAINING
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amA city clampdown on gay-trashing in public schools could have all teachers taking a one-day training course on how to combat harassment of gay and lesbian students, The Post has...
TRAGIC ROWER'S BODY IS FOUND
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amPolice scuba divers found a body believed to be that of missing rower Jim Runsdorf in the Harlem River yesterday morning, at exactly the same time that the Manhattan real-estate...
TEACHERS LEARNING TO THWART GAY BIAS
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amA city clampdown on gay-trashing in public schools could have all teachers taking a one-day training course on how to combat harassment of gay and lesbian students, The Post has...
CAR DEALER WHEEL DUMB
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amA Queens used-car dealer was even more dishonest than most, bilking the state out of $1.2 million by charging sales tax and not passing it along to Albany, prosecutors charged...
ANDREW JACKSON - THE SEVENTH PRESIDENT
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amThis feisty general known as "Old Hickory" became the nation's seventh president. Andrew Jackson was born in the Carolinas, in 1767. During the Revolutionary War, when he was 13, he...
HOKIES (8-0) MARCH ON WITH ANOTHER VICK-TORY
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amBLACKSBURG, Va. - Frank Beamer didn't know the answer to the question, but he was smart enough to smile. "Do you know what your record is with a Vick as...
INJURED COLLINS MAY MISS NETS' OPENER
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amFile this under: "Yeah, so what else is new?" The Nets' defense has been a major concern. Jason Collins has been out with a sore and swollen knee. Gee, next...
KNICKS 'IN PROGRESS' FOR GUARDED BROWN
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amWhen Larry Brown was steering the Pistons to the NBA Finals, he had guards who had been tested and who he knew could handle the ball in crucial situations, like...
CALM ELI KEY TO FRANTIC FINISHES
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES Eli Manning yesterday was asked what it's like to be at the controls of a dynamic offense. He quickly shot back, "I don't know if we're a dynamic...
TRADING BARBS WITH BYE-RON
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amWHEN Byron Scott was continuously, catatonically propped up on the sidelines of the Continental Breakfast Arena, I benignly described him as "a tripod in a three-piece suit." Apparently, that assessment...
ROBESON'S GRANT ON A MISSION
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amMalcolm Grant was only a freshman when Larry Major told him he was going to be Robeson's starting point guard, taking over the position from Gary Ervin, who had led...
TV COVERAGE SHOWS GRAPHIC INCOMPETENCE
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amWE DON'T know exactly when it began to change, but TV used to be a visual medium. In other words, when you tuned in to watch the World Series you...
THE FAN'S CORNER
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amJoe McGinley first sent in a letter to the Fan's Corner in October 2004, claiming he had an "uncanny knowledge of picking winners." This year, he's not so confident. "I'm...
BLUE'S CLUES - GIANTS MUST SOLVE SKINS' BLITZ SCHEMES
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amIt's not that the blitz-happy Redskins are reinventing the wheel. There are only but so many people to send after the quarterback, and only so many directions to come from....
NOW TIME TO FILL UP THE HOLES
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amOnly the manager and general manager have been scratched off a long list of Yankees needs. "We need a center fielder and we need relief help," said Brian Cashman, who...
COLLEY'S WORK PAYS OFF
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amKevin Colley couldn't have been called up for a game that better suits his talents than last night's battle between the Islanders and Rangers at the Garden. Colley was expected...
STARCRAFT: DOWN & DIRTY
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amCUP NOTES Eight Breeders' Cup runners blew out for tomorrow's big day yesterday morning at Belmont Park, the most significant of which could be Starcraft's half-mile drill in a quick...
BYE WEAK - JETS ON THE MEND
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amThe cynic or the angry Jets fan might suggest boot camp for the Jets during the bye this weekend, considering their unexpected and disappointing rash of poor performances so far...
PIGSKIN PROFIT
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amOHIO STATE at MINNESOTA - Noon Ch. 7Line: Ohio State -4 Angle: There are four teams in the Big Ten with one loss, including the Buckeyes and Golden Gophers, and...
WELL-PREPARED - GIANTS INSPIRED BY MARA'S DEATH
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amIT would be natural to expect a little bit of a letdown after a stirring comeback victory over a top team, like the one the Giants pulled off last week...
RANGERS WORK ON GAME
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amThe Rangers and Islanders were meeting last night for the third time in nine days, and after losing three points in the standings to the Islanders in back-to-back losses last...
AN OFFER HE COULDN'T REFUSE
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amTHE former Yankees intern jokingly referred to himself as the original "Apprentice." On this day, though, Brian Cashman was the ultimate "Survivor." Think of Michael Corleone in "The Godfather," and...
LOOKIN' FOR A LONGSHOT - PLENTY OF VALUE AVAILABLE IN CUP FIELD
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amEvery year before the Breeders' Cup, handicappers spend hours studying the past performances, trying to beat the favorite. That can be a wise strategy. Nevertheless, there are times when betting...
PONY UP, AND PRICE IS RIGHT
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amTHE Breeders' Cup may still be struggling after 21 years to excite the interest and participation of great masses of Americans, but for horseplayers, tomorrow's blast-off at Belmont Park will...
NO BULL! REINSDORF CHAMPIN' AT THE BIT
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amHOUSTON - Jerry Reinsdorf was raised in Flatbush. He was 19 years old when the Brooklyn Dodgers finally won the World Series in 1955. As far as he's concerned, that...
THE GENERAL IDEA - YANKS, CASHMAN ON SAME PAGE
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amBrian Cashman agreed to stay on as Yankees general manger for three more years with no net or out-clause below, only guardrails on both sides. "I would describe it as...
PLAY WITH FIRE BURNS ERRATIC MYSTICAL CHANT
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amTrack was fast, harrowed, not turf; wind was blowing against horses racing down backside, with them down stretch. SECOND RACE: Log Jam and Real Precise dueled down backside, with Log...
MT. BEAMER WILL ERUPT IF HOKIES GET SNUBBED
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amBLACKSBURG, Va. - The Bowl Championship Series is losing supporters faster than President Bush is losing Supreme Court nominess. Frank Beamer was a staunch supporter of the BCS. It was...
NILSSON IS TOP-LINE
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amRobert Nilsson looked right at home riding shotgun on the Islanders' top scoring line last night against the Rangers, skating in a slot that seems a perfect fit for the...
RANGERS WORK FOR WIN
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amRangers 3 - Islanders 1 Blue Shirts? Yes, that's what they wear. Blue Collar? Ah, but that's what they are. Perhaps last night's 3-1 victory over the Islanders at the...
PIAZZA TAKES SHOT AT FREE AGENCY
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amMike Piazza filed for free agency yesterday with an announcement of it to come today, according to a source with knowledge of the situation. Piazza, the Met catcher who is...
BIG BLUE HAS INCENTIVE - GIANTS HOPING TO WIN THIS ONE FOR WELLINGTON
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amA BIG Blue seven-bus caravan of grief leaves Giants Stadium today at 8 a.m. for St. Patrick's Cathedral, and Wellington Mara. The Giant family, young and old, will pay their...
ANTONIO LOOKS TO PIERCE REDSKINS
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amThe cell phones have been humming this week, Antonio Pierce gabbing with all his buddies down in D.C., trading the sort of good-natured trash talk that friends engage in when...
LEAGUE OF ITS OWN - AMERICAN LEAGUE IS UNRIVALED AFTER BACK-TO-BACK SWEEPS
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amHOUSTON - It isn't too early to sound the alarms, it really isn't. Maybe if the White Sox, Red Sox and Cubs had gotten around to worrying about their places...
COUNTDOWN TO THE BREEDERS' CUP
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amThe Post continues its profiles of each of the eight Breeders' Cup races to be run Saturday at Belmont Park. The Countdown to the Cup spotlights potential nice-price winners as...
A NEW YEAR, A NEW CHAMPION ... AGAIN
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amOn Wednesday night, the White Sox continued to prove that the new millennium has meant a new major league baseball. Chicago clinched its first championship since 1917 with its four-game...
LIKE OLD TIMES - GIANTS & SKINS RESTOKING THEIR GREAT RIVALRY
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amWith the Giants and Redskins part of a three-way tie for first place, you half expect to see Lawrence Taylor attacking Joe Theismann's blind side, or John Riggins rumbling off...
O'BRIEN NIXES METS' OFFER
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amDave O'Brien has turned down the opportunity to be the full-time play-by-player for the Mets' new network, SportsNet New York, in favor of a new five-year, multi-sport deal with ESPN,...
5 QUESTIONS FOR CRIS COLLINSWORTH
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amThis week, NYP TV Sports' Andrew Marchand spoke with Cris Collinsworth. Collinsworth, 46, is on HBO's Inside The NFL. This year, he left Fox Sports' No. 1 booth to be...
MARCHAND'S MEMO OF THE WEEK
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amTo: Mike Ditka From: Andrew Marchand Re: ESPN work Dear Iron Mike: When you worked NBC's and CBS' pregame shows, you were very pedestrian. During thoseone-hour shows, you had opinions,...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
October 28, 2005 | 4:00amThis year's harvest will be memorable for Fred Schuknecht, not so much for his crop of corn but for what he found in it - an 11-foot, 45-pound python. "It...