January 13, 2006
LORD & SALE-OR - PRIVATE EQUITY FIRMS LEAD LIST OF LIKELY SUITORS
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amFederated Department Stores ended months of speculation yesterday over the fate of Lord & Taylor by announcing that it planned to sell the division. Contrary to some expectations that Lord...
FOOD COURTED - $16B BUYOUT TALKS FOR GROCER ALBERTSON'S
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amGrocery store chain Albertson's Inc. is planning to restart talks with potential buyers after a complex $15.7 billion deal to take the struggling grocery chain private collapsed last month, sources...
SOURCE DUO DODGE OUSTER BY BOARD
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amDavid Mays, founder of the embattled hip-hop magazine The Source, and his longtime president Ray "Benzino" Scott dodged a bullet from a new board of directors seeking to oust the...
FORD TAKES SHADES FROM CHIC TO CHEEK
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amMost people wouldn't use a picture of a naked derriere, glistening with water droplets, or is it sweat, to sell sunglasses. Then again, most people are not Tom Ford. There...
KOPPEL JOINS TIMES, NPR
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amIf you've missed seeing Ted Koppel after he was booted from "Nightline," take heart: he's coming back on an even broader stage - on radio, in newspapers and, of course,...
HOME DEPOT CONFIRMS SEC INQUIRY
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amHome Depot yesterday confirmed that the Securities and Exchange Commission had made an informal request for information related to payments it collected from vendors to cover the cost of damaged...
PEOPLE'S BABY SCOOP - MAG WROTE SIZEABLE CHECK FOR ANGELINA'S PET CHARITY
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amPEOPLE magazine snagged the cover story and pictures confirming Angelina Jolie is pregnant with Brad Pitt's baby - but it was at a steep price. An insider said that the...
OIL RISES ON FEARS OF IRAN NUCLEAR SHOWDOWN
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amNewcomer speculators are crowding into oil trading and pushing prices higher again in an overnight black-gold rush. Crude shot up here yesterday past $65 a barrel amid lingering concerns all...
SOURCE DUO STAY ALIVE - DODGING OUSTER BULLET FROM BOARD, THEY REMAIN DEFIANT
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amDavid Mays, founder of the embattled hip-hop magazine The Source, and his longtime president Ray "Benzino" Scott dodged a bullet from a new board of directors seeking to oust the...
KOPPEL JOINS NPR, TO WRITE FOR TIMES
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amIf you've missed seeing Ted Koppel after he was booted from "Nightline," take heart: he's coming back on an even broader stage - on radio, in newspapers and, of course,...
EASY FREE THROW - CLICHÉS DOMINATE TALE OF HOOPS & RACISM
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amIN the development meetings, "Glory Road" must have been called "Remember 'Remember the Titans,' " because Disney hasn't forgotten the final score of that movie: $136 million. So why not...
A BODY OF WORK
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amMEET Peter Berlin - the man whose eccentric life style has earned him the title the Garbo of gay porn. Back in the 1970s, German-born Berlin was a gay superstar,...
IT'S A TASTY FRENCH KISS
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amWHEN THE SEA RISES [***] (Three stars) IRENE is a plump, middle-aged woman who tours the north of France performing her one-woman show. She wears a chicken mask and invites...
DOG BITES MAN
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amA new movie about the youngest person on the FBI's Most Wanted List - based in part on information provided by a California prosecutor - is stirring controversy two weeks...
DONE TO DEATH
January 13, 2006 | 5:00am'LAST Holiday" is a thoroughly mediocre dramedy starring the ingratiating Queen Latifah as a shy cook who learns to live life after being diagnosed with an incurable disease - and...
STRAINED TALE FROM THE DARK AGES
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amI usually enjoy films about sword-fighting Jutes, rusty armor and hairy guys named Hrothgar, but "Tristan & Isolde" makes sacking and pillaging about as exciting as the line at the...
LAWDY, SHE'S BAWDY
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amWITH a stage show that lay somewhere between a high-school pep rally and a lap dance, Morningwood's frontwoman - Chantel Claret - played one of the most visually entertaining, musically...
HEY GRANDMA, WHAT BIG LAUGHS THIS MOVIE HAS
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amTHE visual qualities of computer-animated movies are making quantum leaps, but the sophistication of the storytelling often seems to be heading in the other direction. "Hoodwinked," an irreverent retelling of...
'SEX AND CITY' BUT FIVE YEARS LATER
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amTHE best-selling follow-up to "Sex and the City" - Candice Bushnell's "Lipstick Jungle" - is on its way to becoming a TV series. "In a way this is five years...
HATCH WANTED REFUND IN 2000
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amTHE same year Richard Hatch won $1 million on "Survivor," he filed a tax return that asked for a $4,500 refund from the IRS, according to federal prosecutors. The grab...
DEMANDA PEET - PUBLICIST LIMITS USE OF QUOTES
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amWHO does Amanda Peet think she is? That's what some reporters were wondering yesterday during a press conference for the upcoming revival of "Barefoot in the Park," starring Peet, Patrick...
STARR REPORT
January 13, 2006 | 5:00am5 changes the 6 Ch. 5 is revamping its news lineup, importing Rick Folbaum and Dari Alexander from sister Fox News Channel to coanchor at 6 p.m. starting Tuesday. Lyn...
ALTAR-CATION - 'HOUSEWIFE' DUKES IT OUT WITH NUN
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amA rosary rumble erupts on "Desperate Housewives" Sunday, devolving into a catfight between Gabrielle (Eva Longoria) and scheming Sister Mary Bernard (Melinda Page Hamilton) in a church. The holy war...
THE CON SQUAD - 'HUSTLED' BY CHARMING SWINDLERS
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amBefore I start, let's get all the complaining about AMC out of the way. First, the cable channel formerly known as American Movie Classics (and now known only by a...
STAR VS. STAR - KEEPING SCORE IN THE LATEST CELEB CATFIGHTS; STAR-ING PARTNERS
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amWHO knew Lindsay Lohan and Scarlett Johansson, two starlets who share bra sizes (occasionally) and ingenue roles, secretly nurse a nasty feud? The riff was exposed after it was reported...
BILLY'S HOT PICK
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amSax player Tim Ries is headlining Thursday at Jazz Standard (116 E. 27th St.; [212] 576-2232). But he's also playing a couple of other gigs while he's in town, with...
WTC MEMORIAL A SECURE THING
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amWork on the World Trade Center memorial, set to begin in March, won't be halted by last-minute gaffes over security similar to what happened to the Freedom Tower, Gov. Pataki's...
12 CHANCES TO SAVE HER LIFE - * CITY'S SHOCKING GOOFS * YOGURT LED TO GIRL'S SLAY
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amDespite at least a dozen phone calls, letters, caseworker visits and follow-ups to charges that a little Brooklyn girl was being abused, child-welfare authorities still failed to protect the helpless...
$30M MORE FOR GOV I.
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amThe state budget will include $30 million for a massive transformation project for historic Governors Island, Gov. Pataki announced yesterday. The Bloomberg administration is expected to match that figure, bringing...
SILVER ALL 'GUN'-HO
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amDemocratic lawmakers gathered on the steps of City Hall yesterday to urge the Republican-led state Senate to return to Albany and take up gun-control bills, including one to ban "cop-killer"...
TWO MONSTERS - DON'T LET NIXZMARY'S MOM OFF THE HOOK
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amMY daughter is 19 months old. She weighs 26 pounds. Nixzmary Brown was 7 years old. She weighed 36 pounds. If she had not been murdered by a blunt trauma...
'GRAND' TIME FOR THE LIRR
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amCrews will start blasting and tunneling under Manhattan this spring as part of the first phase of the East Side Access project connecting the Long Island Railroad to Grand Central...
VICTIM GAVE PALS FOOD AS HER OWN PAIN WENT IGNORED
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amWHEN she came to school, which wasn't all that often, little Nixzmary Brown was sad and she was hungry. At home, she was systematically starved by her parents, beaten, tied...
FDNY MA: DO WRITE THING & HELP JAIL ROGER
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amALBANY - The mother of a firefighter seriously injured during the transit strike when he was forced to take his bike to work urged the public yesterday to ask a...
CONEY IS. CRIES FOR KIDS - FIRE LEFT FAMILY 'TRAPPED LIKE RAT IN MAZE'
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amTears flowed yesterday as saddened friends and neighbors placed candles, flowers and cards at a makeshift memorial for the two young sisters and an aspiring basketball player tragically killed in...
ALITO'S GOOD 'DAY' - CALLS O'CONNOR ROLE MODEL AS DEMS EASE UP
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito seems to be sailing toward easy Senate confirmation, after winding up testimony by saying he'd try to "emulate" the style of the swing...
'KILLER SHRIMP' BENIHANA GRILLED - JACKIE KUNG-FOOD FILM INSPIRED 'DEADLY' TOSS
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amA wacky "flying shrimp" stunt a Long Island woman claims killed her husband was inspired by a Jackie Chan comedy, a court heard yesterday in the opening of a $10...
PAIR IN LEASE FLEECE - LANDLORD, 88: I LOST 85G
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amFor rent: Two-bedroom apartment, eat-in kitchen, whirlpool. No security deposit. $2,000 for seven months. That was the incredible deal accused swindler Nancy Jace and husband Danny Nicholas managed to get...
EX-LAWYER JAILED IN 9/11 $CAM
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amA disbarred Westchester lawyer who cashed in on 9/11 by pretending he had a Wall Street office that lost business following the terror attacks was sentence to 1 ½ years...
TEDDY: MY ALL-MALE CLUB HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Ted Kennedy's office yesterday defended his membership in an elitist, all-male club when he was at Harvard - insisting it had no bearing on his bid to...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amBROOKLYN * A middle-aged man was arrested for robbing a woman at knifepoint on a Canarsie street, authorities said yesterday. Fenrick Alexander, 50, stepped in front of the 31-year-old woman...
TOXIC SCARE IN VILLAGE APT.
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amCity environmental officials yesterday were investigating the mysterious source of pounds of mercury that suddenly flowed from the ceiling of a Greenwich Village apartment. The pre-dawn silvery spill forced the...
TEEN DIES IN COLLAPSE AT SCHOOL
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amA 13-year-old boy died yesterday after collapsing while playing basketball in the gymnasium of his Upper East Side public school, education and police officials said. The boy, Geni Qehaja, began...
GOV TWIST ON $CHOOLS
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki yesterday said his proposed budget will save the city $775 million in Medicaid costs - and that the Bloomberg administration should spend that windfall on education....
COPS PICK UP 'CRACK' TRASH MAN
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amA beefy garbage man and his tubby gal pal were picked up like trash and hauled off to the slammer yesterday after police said they found a large stash of...
FEDS NAIL BX. DRUGGIE GANG
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amSeven drugged-out mob wannabes were busted yesterday for running a Bronx narcotics ring, investigators said. The seven men were charged with federal narcotics conspiracy for selling heroin, cocaine and the...
COP-SLAY CARJACK
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amAn unemployed livery driver testified yesterday that a hulking ex-con accused of murdering two Brooklyn detectives chillingly put a gun to his head and hijacked his van. Omar Harvey, 26,...
ELIOT'S GOPEEVED DEMS RIP SUOZZI
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amALBANY - Furious supporters of Democrat Eliot Spitzer's gubernatorial campaign blasted Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi yesterday for refusing to say he won't challenge the attorney general on the Republican...
SUSPECT'S DELIVERY-SLAY BOAST
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amA bad case of loose lips led to the arrest of William Capehart for allegedly murdering a Chinese-food delivery man, prosecutors revealed on the opening day of his trial yesterday....
PARADE-GROPE SUIT TO TRIAL
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amA Manhattan judge yesterday set a March 8 trial date for a lawsuit charging the NYPD and the city with negligence for not stopping mobs of young men from groping...
CITY SQUIRMIN' OVER VERMIN
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amEeek!!! The Health Department reported yesterday that residents in nearly one-quarter of the city's households said they've seen mice or rats - or telltale signs of infestation - in their...
MONTEL IN 342G SMACK - SUES APT. BUYERS
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amTalk-show host Montel Williams is suing to keep the $342,500 down payment from a stalled $5.6 million bid to buy his Trump Place apartment. At the center of the dispute...
UNGODLY ADVICE OF 'PERV' PRIEST
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amA former Brooklyn altar boy, who accused his priest of molesting him, said he allowed the repeated sexual encounters because he was told the sex would bring him closer to...
KIDS SET FOR EXTRA TUTOR TIME
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amAbout 290,000 struggling students will be required to spend nearly 40 extra minutes in class four days a week beginning next month, city education officials said yesterday. Roughly one in...
PARENTS: CITY DALLIED AS SCHOOL RAISED FLAG
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amParents of Nixzmary Brown's heartbroken classmates yesterday blasted city child-welfare workers for not rescuing the little girl from the serial torture that killed her - and came to the defense...
NIXZMARY WAS KILLED FOR TAKING YOGURT: DA
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amNixzmary Brown was beaten to death by her abusive stepfather because she wanted some yogurt, a prosecutor charged yesterday. Speaking at the arraignment of Cesar Rodriguez and the girl's mom,...
CON ED WTC SUIT KO'D
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amA federal judge has pulled the plug on a lawsuit by Con Edison alleging the city's negligence caused 7 World Trade Center to collapse on Sept. 11 and damage an...
BLOOMBERG: WE FAILED THIS TRAGIC CHILD
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amA frustrated Mayor Bloomberg charged yesterday that the city's child-welfare bureaucracy failed to protect a 7-year-old Brooklyn girl from a life of torture by abusive parents that resulted in her...
RATS! A PEST CRISIS - 25% OF US HAVE 'EM
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amEeek!!! The Health Department reported yesterday that residents in nearly one-quarter of the city's households say they've seen mice or rats - or telltale signs of the pests - in...
HUMAN HEAD FOUND IN BX.
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amA worker found a rotting human head yesterday behind a gas station near Van Cortlandt Park in The Bronx, police said. "We don't know the race, sex or age," said...
EVIL STEPDAD'S SADISTIC RAGE - BLAMED 'EVERYTHING' ON GIRL WITH NONSTOP TORTURE: COPS
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amHe was a crazed monster and she was his pint-sized prey. Whatever 7-year-old Nixzmary Brown did, it was inevitably wrong in the eyes of her brutish, 27-year-old stepfather. There were...
4 ARRESTS TERMINATE GUN RING
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amCops rounded up four alleged gun-runners yesterday, dismantling a ring that peddled high-powered weapons, including assault rifles, in Harlem, law-enforcement sources said. Reputed ringleaders Jamal Hersford, 23, and Marcellus Sorey,...
I COULD'VE TAKEN HER TO SAFETY
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amLittle Nixzmary Brown might be alive today if her granny had enough money to fly her to Puerto Rico. When Maria Gonzalez visited the family last month, the battered 7-year-old...
WTC BIG'S VOW - MEMORIAL IS A GO
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amWork on the World Trade Center memorial, set to begin in March, won't be blocked by lastminute gaffes over security similar to what happened to the Freedom Tower, Gov. Pataki's...
JAGR-IFIC! - OT GOAL CAPS MESS' NIGHT
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amOVERTIME: Rangers 5 - Oilers 4 Gooooaaaaal! The Captain inspires the Rangers still. They wouldn't dare risk that stare by spoiling his night. Losing on Mark Messier Night was not...
A SPIT IN THE FACE OF LOGIC
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amIT took years, but we're starting to grasp the difference between a spitting incident and a racial incident; the difference between a football incident and a racial incident. In December,...
BADLANDS TRIP IS GOOD FOR JASPERS
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amSTUDENTS don't have to write those sentimental "What I Did on My Winter Vacation" essays at Manhattan College. But if they did, what an eclectic crop you'd get from the...
METS' TV NET ADDING FINAL TOUCHES
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amTHE latest, as of yesterday, from the new Mets' new TV network, SportsNet NY: Ex-Mets Keith Hernandez and Ron Darling will become Gary Cohen's color analysts. Hernandez and Darling will...
MARTY OFF MARK - BRODEUR HAD ROLE IN MESS LORE
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amJust a couple more saves by Martin Brodeur and last night wouldn't have been necessary. The Devils' goalie was left pondering the vagaries of fame and fortune as the Garden...
COLTS, MOM & APPLE PIE
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amTHERE is only one way to root here, assuming you don't have any lifelong alliances left in the NFL Playoffs. Steelers fans are exempt from this. Whoever survives what promises...
STREAKING DEVILS WARY OF CANUCKS
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amCANUCKS at DEVILS - Tonight 7:30 - FSN; WFAN (660 AM) Should the Devils turn in another victory tonight, this baby step of a winning streak could turn into something...
BLACKFISH BITING
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amTHE spring-like temperatures have anglers stirring as the bottom action offers a nice mix. From Montauk, I hear blackfish, ling and a few keeper cod are being caught in a...
TRAGEDY SCARS TILDEN PLAYER
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amWhen Omar Thompson's mother Dawn told him that his brother, Tafare Berryman, had been killed last year, he didn't believe her. "He wasn't a guy who went to parties and...
DOUBY STILL MUST LEARN DO'S, DON'TS
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amPISCATAWAY - The tattoo on Quincy Douby's arm proclaims him to be "Mr. Douby," which makes us wonder why at times he acts more like a child than a man....
HOME COOKING - VISITORS BEWARE UNGRACIOUS HOSTS
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amIT always has paid to re member history during the divisional round of the NFL playoffs. A stat we've been monitoring for years in this space has grown into the...
IN PLAYOFFS, IT'S ALL JAKE TO PANTHERS
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amThis time of year is all about which quarterback can and which cannot get it done come playoff time, which is why Tom Brady and Ben Roethlisberger rise in stature...
GILBERT: MESSIER GREATEST RANGER
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amThe contender conceded. Rod Gilbert called Mark Messier the greatest Ranger ever. "I was here in '94 and he was the catalyst of the whole thing," said Gilbert, the team's...
NETS FINDING NEW WAY
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amNETS at GRIZZLIES - Tonight 8:00 - YES; WBBR (1130) MEMPHIS - No one is guaranteeing anything. No one promises a new streak begins here tonight for the Nets. One...
MCINNIS CAN'T CRACK ROTATION
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amNET NOTES MEMPHIS - There were other summer suitors, but Jeff McInnis chose the Nets to play with a winning team. Winning is working out. Playing is another matter. McInnis,...
METROS ACQUIRE VET MIDFIELDER
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amIn a clear sign the MetroStars are seeking production over potential, the club dealt 18-year-old defender Tim Ward to Columbus for 35-year-old midfielder Chris Henderson yesterday. Ward played well as...
HAWKS TARGET OF REVENGE
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Of all the low points during the Knicks' 7-21 start, few, if any, were worse than a 122-111 loss to the lowly Hawks on Dec. 16. It wasn't...
'SKY IS THE LIMIT' - LARRY, STEPH POINT KNICKS THE RIGHT WAY
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amLarry Brown has been highly critical of Stephon Marbury during their first season together with the Knicks, but now that the team is riding a five-game winning streak, the head...
'REPUBLIC' SAVES PUBLIC
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amFIRST RACE: After tucking in behind hot pace duel, Tatooma cut corner turning for home under Ramon Dominguez, drove through along rail to take lead mid-stretch, looked home free. But...
WIN-LOSE SITUATION - ARTEST FOR MAGGETTE: BIG RISKS & REWARDS
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amCONTINGENT on the Pacers' doctors not being dissuaded by Corey Maggette's medical documents and Clippers' coach Mike Dunleavy not being discouraged by an Indiana-approved personal powwow with Ron Artest, the...
ISLANDERS WIN FIRST FOR SHAW
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amIslanders 3 - Flames 2 Apparently all it took was the most dramatic shakeup in team history to get the Islanders going in the right direction. In Brad Shaw's first...
MARK OF A CHAMPION - REMINISCING RANGERS REWIND TO '94
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amThe calendar was a liar last night. It was June of 1994 at the Garden, not January of 2006. Echoes of that championship season - the one and only for...
AFTER GREAT ONE, MESS WAS BEST OF REST
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amTHE first ovation was nearly 3 ½ minutes long. There were enough tears shed to overflow a Stanley Cup when the greatest Ranger of all time was given his due....
MARK OF A CHAMPION - REMINISCING RANGERS REWIND BACK TO '94
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amThe calendar was a liar last night. It was June of 1994 at the Garden, not January of 2006. For echoes of that championship season - the one and only...
BRODEUR COULDN'T KEEP MARK FROM RANGER GREATNESS
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amJust a couple more saves by Martin Brodeur and last night wouldn't have been necessary. The Devils' goalie was left pondering the vagaries of fame and fortune as the Garden...
TWIN KILLING - MILBURY, STIRLING REMOVED BY ISLES
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amThe bloodiest day in franchise history unfolded yesterday with the Islanders firing head coach Steve Stirling, but more shockingly, announcing that general manager Mike Milbury was stepping down after 10...
FIRST TIME
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amAll four of this weekend's divisional showdowns will be rematches of games played during the regular season, with the Patriots, Steelers, Panthers and Seahawks looking for revenge. Here is a...
BATTLE OF THE BRAINS - BIG BILL VS. MIGHTY MIKE IN HEAVYWEIGHT BRAWL
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amThe excitement in Tom Jackson's voice shot through the phone line. When Bill Belichick's Patriots visit Mike Shanahan's Broncos, the ESPN analyst said, it's going to be a "classic." "I...
STERLING'S GONNA HOOP IT UP - YANKEE VOICE WILL PINCH-HIT ON NET-CASTS
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amNets win! Thuuuuuh Nets win! Well, depending on your point of view, maybe they don't. Tonight in Memphis, with Marv Albert and Ian Eagle unavailable, John Sterling will fill in...
5 QUESTIONS FOR KEVIN MAWAE
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amThis week, NYP TV Sports' Andrew Marchand spoke with Jet center Kevin Mawae. Mawae, 34, is working as a postseason correspondent for NFL Network. Q: What was your initial reaction...
MARCHAND'S MATCHUP OF THE WEEK: HOWIE LONG VS. SHANNON SHARPE (WHO IS A BETTER PREGAME ANALYST?)
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amYou have to listen when CBS' Shannon Sharpe talks football, because he has no editor in his head. What he thinks, he says. While many analysts hold back, only peeling...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
January 13, 2006 | 5:00amJany Chumas was puzzled when her cat, Mary Poppins, vanished from her Wisconsin home. Then, a week later, she heard faint meowing from behind the basement ceiling, which had recently...