December 2, 2005
C&W EXEC JUMPS SHIP
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amThe head of area brokerage for worldwide real estate services giant, Cushman & Wakefield just jumped to Trammell Crow with an eye on beefing up its city ranks. Ken Krasnow,...
HEDGE GIANT FINED - ENGLANDER TO PAY $30M
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amIsrael Englander, the secretive and legendary hedge fund investor, was docked $30 million yesterday by the Securities and Exchange Commission for his role in directing a wide-ranging mutual fund market...
T. LEE'S BID FOR GROCER A NO-GO
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amResurgent growth at Wal-Mart has pushed a team of powerful buyout firms, including Thomas H. Lee Partners, out of the $16 billion auction for supermarket chain Albertson's Inc., sources told...
FORD & GM STILL SLIDING
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amFor the first time in a quarter-century, drivers are buying more smaller cars than SUVs and pickups - particularly snapping up economical Toyotas and Hondas. The two Japanese automakers spirited...
DOLAN FAVORING A LA CARTE CABLE PRICING PLAN
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amChuck Dolan is keeping alive his maverick image by jumping on the relaunched bandwagon for controversial a la carte TV on cable. The move to let subscribers pick their channels...
HO HO HUM! HOLIDAY SALES SLUMPING
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amThe nation's retailers reported mixed monthly sales figures yesterday that were generally in line with estimates, but also showed pockets of weakness in important categories such as luxury goods, prompting...
IT'S PLAIN - IT'S JANE - EX PRATT AIDE'S TALE HITS THE STREET
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amPUBLISHING sources are buzzing about a proposal for a new novel in which the main character bears an uncanny resemblance to Jane Pratt, the founder and former editor of Jane...
BLACK STABBER - CONRAD PINS HOLLINGER FRAUD ON DEPUTY RADLER
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amCHICAGO - It was a long way from Bora Bora for Conrad Black, the once jet-setting newspaper baron, who was fingerprinted and snapped for mugshots yesterday before pleading not guilty...
NEWSDAY SCROOGES KILL XMAS FOR 72
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amMerry Christmas - you're fired. Newsday Publisher and CEO Tim Knight fired 72 more people at the embattled Long Island daily yesterday. The headcount reduction is even greater since he...
FAIR GAMES? NYSE DISSIDENTS WANT ANOTHER DEAL STUDY
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amBill Higgins and his fellow dissidents at the New York Stock Exchange continued their fight against the proposed merger with Archipelago yesterday, arguing that a new fairness opinion from Citigroup...
SIBLING & SPACE RIVALRY
December 2, 2005 | 5:00am'THE Far Side of the Moon" is a master class on turning a talky, one-man play into a visual delight. French-Canadian director Robert Lepage not only directs the screen version...
CAN'T STAND 'YOUR WORK' - POSITIVELY CAN'T STAND 'YOUR WORK'
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amAT last, Adam Goldberg has given us his "8 1/2." It's an ambitious rumination on fame, reality, love, loss and regret that falls so far short, he should have called...
DARK TOWNES
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amAN excited young Houston bride and her groom were feathering their nest in a lovely apart ment paid for by their wealthy parents. All paths to the future lay open....
'ALWAYS' A PLEASURE AT AILEY TROUPE GALA
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amTHE gala opening of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre's annual five-week New York season at the City Center Wednesday night revealed the company in its best shape in years....
THERE'S NO HEART-AIKEN FROM ANGELIC IDOL
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amIN a Christmas show, you might expect ex-"American Idol" runner-up Clay Aiken to play the role of Rudolph - you know, the underdog reindeer who eventually gets to pull Santa's...
HUE GOTTA BELIEVE
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amOPRAH Winfrey's favorite new musical - "The Color Purple," the movie of which made her a star - opened last night, blessed by glow ing performances from a sisterhood of...
INEPT INSIDER TALE LOST IN TANGLED PLOT
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amTHE mesmerizingly awful "The Kid & I" is a historic first: a comedy about the making of a vanity production that is itself a vanity production. Not only did Tom...
NICOLE'S 'SIMPLE' CAREER GROWS
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amNICOLE Richie has signed a talent deal with Fox to star or appear in a new comedy. Richie, who shot to fame on the reality show "The Simple Life" two...
FILM DESCENDS TO MERE PLUGS
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amYOU may wonder what footage of a NASCAR race is doing in "First Descent," an overlong and surprisingly dull documentary about snowboarding. It's because that particular NASCAR race is sponsored...
'EARL' MOVES IN ON 'JOEY'
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amNBC has shaken up its midseason schedule in an attempt to rebuild its once-dominant "Must-See TV" Thursday-night lineup. The big winner is "My Name Is Earl," which will move from...
LITTLE TO ADMIRE IN 'MAN'
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amLITTLE MAN [* 1/2] (One and one-half stars)YOUR baby is near death. Instead of dropping every thing to save his life, you make sure the video camera keeps rolling. That's...
STERN DOESN'T REGRET CANCER WISH
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amHOWARD Stern once used his radio show to say he wished an FCC official's cancer would spread. But he now says he might give that notion a second thought. "You...
SHE'S A MAN BABY! GENDER-BENDING ROAD FLICK MAKES WRONG TURN
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amTRANSAMERICA (two stars) Quel drag. Running time: 103 minutes. Rated R (nudity, profanity, sexual situations, drug abuse). At the IFC Center, Sixth Avenue and West Third Street. 'TRANSAMERICA" is a...
A MELLOW FELLOW
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amWHETHER it's "Mellow Yellow" or "Sunshine Superman," everyone - over 40 - has a favorite Donovan song. "Try for the Sun: The Journey of Donovan," a Princely purple boxed set,...
PLAYWRIGHT GRAVELY ILL
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amTHE theater world was shocked and saddened yesterday to learn of Pulitzer-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein's battle with a life-threatening disease. For weeks, there had been rumors that she was ill,...
AGELESS STRENGTH IN SONG
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amAS Bonnie Raitt has matured, the copper-topped singer - who's suffered in love and wrestled with bottled demons - has cultivated a stage grace that's as vital to her performance...
PAPAL CHASE - POPE MOVIE TRANSFORMS JOHN PAUL INTO A SAINT
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amIf there is an official entry in this year's pope movie marathons (there are three, 'count 'em, three), it would have to be CBS' Sunday night entry, "Pope John Paul...
TIVO BULKS UP - EXTRA FEATURES GO BEYOND TELEVISION
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amTHE line between televisions and computers got a little blurrier today when TiVo vamped up TV's everywhere with services typically seen on the Internet. Starting this week TiVo subscribers will...
MARY'S HOT PICK
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amDonal Fox (above)has a jazzman 's version of ADD. The pianist and composer will present a genre-crossing selection of music from Thelonious Monk, J.S.Bach,Astor Piazolla,Stevie Wonder,George Gershwin,Domenico Scarlatti,Robert Schumann and...
STARR REPORT
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amJoining the club Add another to the long list of TV shows turned into bigscreen movies. This time it's "The Equalizer," the CBS series (1985-89) starring Edward Woodward and Robert...
NYPD BOMB-SQUADER RETIRES
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amIn the days before robots, the NYPD's bomb squad had Charles Wells. The legendary cop retired this week after 37 years on the force - 13 of them with the...
'COP KILLER' IN SCUFFLE ON RIKERS
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amAccused cop killer Allan Cameron was hospitalized for several hours last night after he scuffled with guards who brought him back to Rikers Island following a court appearance, authorities said....
SHARPTON SHILLS FOR N.Y.-BANNED LENDER
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The Rev. Al Sharpton is the new pitchman for a quick-cash lending company with interest rates so outrageous that New York - and about half of all other...
PERVS FLOOD APPLE - 100 EX-CONS SINCE AUG.
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amALBANY - An alarming new study by a state senator has found that more than 100 convicted sex predators - many of them considered high risk - have moved to...
FAT CHANCE FOR MIKE'S FLAB-FIGHTING PROGRAM
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amHERE'S a tip for Mayor Bloomberg and city Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas Frieden, whose latest brainstorm is to encourage bodegas to sell healthier food products: Check out this week's Advertising...
ROSA'S RIDERS HONOR TRIBUTE - GLADLY KEEP SEAT EMPTY
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amBuses in New York and around the country kept a seat open for Rosa Parks yesterday to honor the 50th anniversary of the civil-rights pioneer's refusal to give up her...
ALIENS FOR MIKE
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amImmigrant New Yorkers voted for Mayor Bloomberg in greater numbers than U.S.-born city residents, a poll released yesterday showed. Republican Bloomberg captured 62.9 percent of the votes of foreign-born New...
WAREHOUSE BOOST TO BX.
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amFive hundred and fifty new jobs are coming to the South Bronx under a deal announced yesterday by Mayor Bloomberg to provide city property at Hunts Point for the expansion...
ISRAEL NABS JAZEERA REPORTER
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli forces have arrested an al-Jazeera reporter in the West Bank flashpoint town of Hebron, officials said yesterday. Awad Rajoub, 29, was arrested at his home there on...
BLOOMY INKS UNRULY-FAN LAW
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amThe city's "Calvin Klein Law" for unruly sports fans has been beefed up. Mayor Bloomberg yesterday signed a new version of the law - which provides for up to a...
MIKE VOWS TO BE AIDS LIFESAVER
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amDeclaring that he'd had enough of visiting friends who were dying from AIDS, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday vowed that by 2008, he'll have slashed AIDS deaths in the city by 40...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amBROOKLYN * Police yesterday were searching for a missing autistic teen who wandered from his Brownsville home wearing only pajamas and no shoes. Raymond Gregg (above), 16, hasn't been heard...
DEM SHOCK IN POLL
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Democrats tend to think the world would be better off if Saddam Hussein were still in power, according to a stunning new Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll. Forty-one percent...
'WEAPONS CASH' NETS 2,552 PIECES
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amA no-questions-asked NYPD "buyback" program that offers cash for guns has netted 2,552 weapons since it began almost three and a half years ago, The Post has learned. The latest...
COPS HUNT BX. SCHOOL KIDNAP THUG
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amThis is the face of the boozed-up stranger who tried to snatch a 5-year-old girl from her Bronx school. The fuzzy-faced fiend slipped into the cafeteria of PS 33 in...
APPLE KIDS IMPROVE IN NAT'L TESTS
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amBig Apple fourth- and eighth-graders improved their reading and math scores on national tests, but the city slipped in the standings comparing large urban school districts, according to results released...
'THIEF' WENT ON WHIP TRIPS - CHARITY $$ FOR S&M FLIGHTS
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amA heartless man who embezzled more than $200,000 from a cardiac charity left his wife and family behind to fly to Ohio for kinky trysts with his raven- haired S&M...
PHONE-FOOL KIDNAP IS FOILED - NABBED BECAUSE HE COULDN'T WORK VICTIM'S CELL: COPS
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amAn employee fired from a New Jersey landscaping job kidnapped his rich ex-boss' wife at gunpoint, but was nabbed because he couldn't operate her cellphone, authorities said yesterday. Edgar Rene...
HIZZONER'S '#1' FRIEND IS HERSTORIC AS #2 CITY BIG
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amShe has been Mayor Bloomberg's right-hand woman for more than a decade - insiders say no one is closer to him - and now she'll be in command at City...
PATAKI GROUNDS BRUNO IN GOP FEUD
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki shot down Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno's attempt to use a state helicopter yesterday when Bruno wanted to fly to New York City to meet with...
EVIL HOME INVADERS LEAVE BX. GRANNY FOR DEAD
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amAn elderly woman selling her house in The Bronx was left for dead yesterday after a couple posing as homebuyers tied her up, beat her bloody and set her house...
PIRRO EYES EXIT AMID 'EMERGENCY SUMMIT'
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amALBANY - Embattled Republican Senate hopeful Jeanine Pirro will hold an "emergency summit" with Gov. Pataki today as she weighs pulling out of the race against Hillary Rodham Clinton. A...
DETECTIVES NIX CONTRACT
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amIn a surprise move, the membership of the NYPD detectives union yesterday narrowly rejected a contract that had been negotiated between its leadership and the city in November. Detective Endowment...
NEW LOVE FOR DAVE & OPRAH
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amFEUD? What feud? TV titans Oprah Winfrey and David Letterman got along like old pals last night on Letterman's CBS "Late Show," despite an estrangement that lasted 16 years. It...
'I HATE GUNS,' WEEPS TRAGIC MOTHER
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amHE WAS just a kid. On the day he died, Fernando Correa - "Fernandito" to his mama - did not fear the teen who was harassing him. His mom warned...
I GAVE COPS' KILLER THE GUN
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amA gang-banger who handed over the gun used in the execution-style murder of two Staten Island detectives pleaded guilty to racketeering yesterday. Paris Bullock, 23, a member of the Stapleton...
LOVE PUPS' RUFF START - ABANDONED DUO SEEKING GOOD HOME
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amTwo bundles of puppy love are up for adoption after The Post found them shivering in the corner of the dog run at a Harlem park yesterday. The pups -...
TRYING TIME FOR 2 'MOB COPS'
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amTwo reputed mob cops will get their day in court. "This case has to be tried, and it will be tried," Brooklyn federal court Judge Jack Weinstein said yesterday, declining...
GRANDMA TAKES ON CARJACKER
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amA feisty grandmother tried to fight off a carjacker even after he threw her to the sidewalk in Queens yesterday - and says no one answered her screams for help...
HILL FLIES INTO A RAGE OVER AIR SCISSORS
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is fighting mad over the Transportation Security Administration's idea of permitting scissors, screwdrivers and other sharp objects back aboard airlines beginning today. And she's...
'FOOL'S GOLD' CLAN BUSTED
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amA Rockland County family of five was nabbed for allegedly duping victims into "investing" millions of dollars in a nonexistent Brazilian gold mine and buying bogus goods over the Internet....
MTA SLAPS OAF RIDERS
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amThe MTA begins its crackdown on bad behavior Monday with a series of new rules prohibiting everything from rollerblading on the subway to putting your feet up on an empty...
BX. SCHOOL 'KIDNAPPER' IS NABBED
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amA boozed-up stranger who tried to snatch a 5-year-old girl from her Bronx school was arrested after cops found him sleeping on a park bench, apparently drunk again, police sources...
RIP-OFF A $PANKING FOR HEART FOUNDATION
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amThe charity money allegedly stolen by an employee with a penchant for pain was supposed to be used by a respected Manhattan medical organization that has been funding and conducting...
RAIL UNION: MTA 'LIAR' TO BLAME IF WE STRIKE
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amUnion leaders blamed the MTA's lead negotiator for stalling talks yesterday - and all but forcing them to threaten a strike. "He's a liar," Darlyne Lawson, recording secretary for Transport...
PIRRO'S PUZZLE
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amALBANY JEANINE Pirro was billed as the Golden Girl of New York Republican politics, but after four months of campaigning she looks more like one of the Not Ready for...
AIRTRAIN FLYING HIGH WITH RIDERS
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amThe biggest travel day was a record one for the AirTrain service to JFK Airport, Port Authority officials said yesterday. The day before Thanksgiving saw 16,621 riders go from Howard...
AU REVOIR TO TOURISTS
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Many French citizens are having to cancel their U.S. holiday plans, leaving their tourist euros at home. Because France has failed to comply with a U.S. anti-terror law...
TRYING TIMES FOR 'MOB COPS'
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amTwo reputed mob cops will get their day in court. "This case has to be tried, and it will be tried," Brooklyn federal Judge Jack Weinstein said yesterday, declining to...
QNS. VAN HORROR - GIRL, 6, KILLED RIDING HOME FROM SCHOOL
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amA little girl on her way home from school in Queens was killed yesterday when a car ran a stop sign and smashed into her van, cops said. Samantha Bobbie,...
VID I.D. IN STRIPPER SLAY - EX SPOTTED OUTSIDE HER PAD AT DEATH HOUR: COPS
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amPolice have video proof that an estranged lover of slain stripper Catherine Woods was standing just outside her Upper East Side building around the time the 21-year-old brunette was brutally...
N.Y. FINANCIER FLIER MISSING
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amA plane piloted by a Manhattan philanthropist disappeared last night on its final approach to Nantucket, authorities said. George F. Baker III - whose old-money banking family is famed for...
GET THESE GUNS OFF THE STREET, SLAIN KID'S MA WEEPS
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amHE WAS just a kid. On the day he died, Fernando Correa - "Fernandito" to his mama - did not fear the teen who was harassing him. His mom warned...
HOT BOOTY BAGS AT BLAZE
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amFirefighters battling a Queens yesterday stumbled upon something hot - boxes upon boxes of bootleg designer bags stashed in a warehouse. The FDNY, called in to fight a stubborn fire...
COP DELIVERS OWN NEWBORN
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amAn NYPD cop helped deliver his own baby last night, police said. Officer Jimmy Hopkins, 38, a 17-year veteran of the Manhattan North Task Force, was driving his wife Susan...
WATER-TUNNEL RESCUE DRAMA
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amA construction worker was rescued 150 feet below ground last night after he was trapped by machinery during construction of a TriBeCa water tunnel, authorities said. The contractor had been...
A LO$$, TO BE FRANC - PASSPORT MESS COSTLY
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Frenchman Sylvain Guery planned to ring in the New Year with thousands of Americans at Radio City Music Hall - until French government bungling and U.S. bureaucratic delays...
NYPD BOMB SQUADER 'BOOMER' WELLS RETIRES
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amIn the days before robots, the NYPD's bomb squad had Charles Wells. The legendary cop retired this week after 37 years on the force - 13 of them with the...
OWNERS: SHOW US THE MILK $ - BODEGAS WAIT & SEE IN CITY'S HEALTH-FOOD PLAN
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amBodega owners said yesterday that it's their customers who will determine the success of a new city program that encourages the stores to sell healthier food. "We don't mind stocking...
HOT BOOTY BAGS FOUND AT BLAZE
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amFirefighters battling a Queens blaze yesterday that burned two people stumbled upon something else hot - boxes upon boxes of bootleg designer bags stashed in a warehouse. The FDNY, called...
RAIL UNION: BLAME MTA IF WE STRIKE
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amUnion leaders blamed the MTA's lead negotiator for stalling talks yesterday - and all but forcing them to threaten a strike. "He's a liar," Darlyne Lawson, recording secretary for Transport...
IMMIGRANT POLL VAULT
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amImmigrant New Yorkers voted for Mayor Bloomberg in greater numbers than native-born city residents, a poll released yesterday showed. Republican Bloomberg captured 62.9 percent of the votes of foreign-born New...
PHILLIES YANK GORDON AWAY - RELIEVER AGREES ON 3-YEAR, $18M DEAL
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amLate last night, the Yankees lost their bid to retain Tom Gordon, as he and the Phillies reached an agreement on a three-year deal worth $18 million for the 38-year-old...
BEAR HUNTING IN CROSSHAIRS
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amTHE inevitable happened last Week: Some so-called animal rights groups filed suit to stop the bear-hunting season in New Jersey. The two New Jersey-based anti-hunting groups sued in the Appellate...
BAD NEWS KEEPS ON COMING
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amDecision by Sotheby's to cancel sale of NYRA artwork, scheduled for today, under threat of lawsuit from N.Y. State Racing and Wagering Board continues spate of hard-luck news at Aqueduct....
FOES TARGETING DEVILS' GIONTA
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amThis is what happens when the NHL notices one of its shortest players is on a 55-goal pace. Devils winger Brian Gionta was worked over Wednesday by Flyers defensemen Derian...
WINKY AWAITS MIDDLE CHAMP
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amLAS VEGAS - Two of the more interested observers of tomorrow night's middleweight championship rematch between Jermain Taylor and Bernard Hopkins at Mandalay Bay will be Winky Wright and Sam...
MARIST BOMBER MISSING TARGET
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amWILL Whittington knew what he was going to be up against. You can't finish second in the nation in 3-point percentage as a sophomore and sneak up on teams as...
THE FAN'S CORNER
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amWhen the letter arrived asking for Angelo LaMacchia to appear in the Fan's Corner, we had to accept him. The 5-year-old is a legacy, after all. LaMacchia is the great-grandson...
AFLEET ALEX RETIRED
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amThe other shoe finally dropped on the Afleet Alex saga yesterday when trainer Tim Ritchey announced the likely 3-year-old champion, attempting to come back from surgery for a fractured cannon...
PISTONS HONOR THOMAS
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES DETROIT - One Knick will be honored tonight by the Pistons and it won't be Larry Brown. Knicks president Isiah Thomas, who, just like Brown, had a tiff...
BROOKS STILL GUNNING FOR HIS FIRST WIN
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amAs Brooks Bollinger develops from third-string clipboard clutcher into an actual NFL quarterback this season - and as he faces the daunting task of playing the Bill Belichick Patriots SunDay...
ABE WORRIES BRADY
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amJET NOTES With Jets' defensive end John Abraham in a sack slump - none in the last three games and only 5 ½ for the season - Patriots' quarterback Tom...
PIERRE DEAL TO YANKS HAS MARLINS PERKIN'
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amThe last time Juan Pierre played center field in Yankee Stadium, he helped the Marlins win the 2003 World Series. Now, Pierre could be returning to The Bronx as the...
MOTOWN EMOTIONS - BROWN: I'M NOT MISSING DETROIT
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amKNICKS at PISTONS - Tonight 8:00 - MSG; ESPN (1050) DETROIT - Never has anyone sounded so fine about being fired. Meet Larry Brown. Brown isn't on course for a...
COACH'S LATEST SURGERY CAN WAIT
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amDETROIT - Larry Brown revealed he's been checked out at a hospital twice in the past three weeks and it's been determined he needs another surgery that would put him...
PISTONS PRIMED WITHOUT LARRY
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amREGGIE Miller caught me by surprise Thanksgiving. Out of nowhere he reminded TNT's viewers how the Pacers failed to make the playoffs under Larry Brown his last season and that...
WILD, WILD EAST - JINTS HAVE EDGE IN SHOWDOWN WITH 'BOYS
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amTO SIGNIFY just how much of a toss-up this NFC East first-place showdown between the Giants and Cowboys really is, all you have to do is look at the spread....
PHILS MAKE LATE PITCH FOR GORDON
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amWhile the Yankees inched closer to officially signing Kyle Farnsworth the picture with Tom Gordon in it became cloudy. Yesterday afternoon it appeared Gordon was ready to accept a two-year...
BENSON DEAL IFFY AS METS STAY BUSY
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amJust a few days from the start of the winter meetings, Kris Benson may or may not be getting set to depart the Mets, while the team also remains focused...
HENRIK THE GREAT - 35 SAVES POWER RANGERS TO SIXTH STRAIGHT WIN
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amRangers 2 - Penguins 1 Here's how good Henrik Lundqvist has been for the Rangers: When he plays as well as he did in making 35 saves in last night's...
HENRIK HANDLES FROSH FEAR
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amIt's going to be at least another few days before Kevin Weekes' right ankle is fit enough to allow him to return, maybe Monday when the Wild comes to the...
5 QUESTIONS FOR JOE BUCK
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amThis week, NYP TV Sports' Andrew Marchand spoke with Fox Sports' Joe Buck. Buck, 36, has called eight World Series and one Super Bowl. Q: The biggest criticism that I...
SCIAMBI OFFERED MET RADIO GIG - BUT HE MAY STICK WITH ESPN TV DUTIES
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amWFAN and the Mets have offered Roosevelt Island native Jon Sciambi the Mets' radio play-by-play position, NYP TV Sports has learned. Sciambi, 35, is contemplating whether he wants to call...
MARCHAND'S MEMO OF THE WEEK
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amTo: Poets From: Andrew Marchand Re: Stuart Scott CC: Robert Frost Dear Poets: This really happened: Out of a commercial break Sunday, a SportsCenter voice-over said, "Yo, next up on...
TIKI TIME - BARBER IS GIANTS' KEY IN COWBOY SHOWDOWN
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amSunday Cowboys at Giants 1 p.m., Fox It very well could come down to Tiki Barber vs. Julius Jones during Sunday's NFC East showdown between the Giants and Cowboys. Whoever...
GIANTS READY TO COWBOY UP - SHOCKEY PSYCHED FOR MONSTER MATCHUP
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amNo gray area this week for Big Blue. "This is the first game in December, this is when this league really starts," tight end Jeremy Shockey said yesterday. "Teams are...
A GAME THIS BIG CALLS FOR A DOSE OF OSI
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amHERE comes D-Day. Dallas Day. Division Day. Doomsday for the Giants if they don't beat the Cowboys Sunday at Giants Stadium. Do-or-Doomsday. It is the only way for the Giants...
GIANTS FASTEST GUN IN THE EAST - GROUND GAME, HOME CROWD GIVE BIG BLUE EDGE IN BATTLE FOR FIRST
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amMEANINGFUL games in December are what every NFL team strives for, and they don't get any more meaningful than this for the Giants and Cowboys, who on Sunday at Giants...
THIS TIME, FAST START IS CRUCIAL
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amSometimes it is difficult or impossible to determine when a bad habit started, but for the Giants it's quite easy. Look no further than Oct. 16 in Dallas as the...
BIG D PLANNIN' 'A' GAME
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amIRVING - As the Cowboys prepared for Sunday's game with the Giants this week, no extra motivation was needed. No rah-rah screaming in practice, no fiery talks from the coaches...
ESPN: NO RHYME OR REASON
December 2, 2005 | 5:00am"IF you slay us with your skill, Chad, Young lad, You still slay us. You know you a star, When you resuscitate CPR On the ball" - Stuart Scott, "SportsCenter"...
BOMBERS LOSE GORDON TO PHILLIES
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amDespite the emergence of the Rangers as a possible home for Kyle Farnsworth, the Yankees remain positive the gas-throwing righty reliever will land in The Bronx. However, when it came...
LET THE SON SHINE
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amSOME things never change, no matter the year, no matter the season, no matter the generation. When you go to Carmine's, you order the veal parm. When you drink a...
O'HARA VOWS NO MORE LINE TRANCING
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES After the disaster on the offensive line in Seattle, center Shaun O'Hara is confident there won't be a repeat when the Giants host the Cowboys on Sunday. "For...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
December 2, 2005 | 5:00amHoly $#*t! Cops in Connecticut have started fining school kids for cursing. Officers are now patrolling the halls of Hartford Public and Bulkeley high schools and swearing youngsters can be...