February 3, 2006
SOUP'S ON IN ROCK CENTER
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amThe Soup Man made famous on "Seinfeld" as the Soup Nazi will soon sling his slop and insults from Rockefeller Center. Al Yeganeh signed a corporate lease for a former...
CORCORAN GROUP UNVEILS A BRAND NEW LOOK
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amCorcoran Group, the upscale Manhattan real estate brokerage, is rebranding itself from top to bottom, after the departure of its high-profile founder last year. The firm established by real estate...
REVOLVING DOOR - HOME DEPOT WAS PAID 3 TIMES FOR SAME PRODUCT
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amHome Depot employed practices that would allow it to get paid as many as three times for the same merchandise - once from a contractor hired to install it, a...
WEISEL IPO JUMPS 33% IN DEBUT
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amThe explosive IPO of investment bank Thomas Weisel looked a lot like one of the tech dandies the firm took public during the dot-com bubble. Shares of San Francisco-based Weisel,...
SECOND REGIONAL EXEC EXITS; OVERSAW INVENTORY
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amA second Home Depot executive has resigned, two weeks after the president of the Northern region left the company for reasons that remain unclear, The Post has learned. Chris Spaccaforno,...
FEDS HIT 4 EXECS FOR FRAUD
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amThe temperature keeps rising for former AIG honcho Maurice Greenberg. The Department of Justice indicted one of his most senior former executives yesterday in the government's continuing probe of complex...
BOSSES HID LO$$: WITNESS
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amA former Enron insider peeled back more layers of corruption at Enron, including a single morning's cover-up of $726 million in vanished cashflow. The cover-up allegedly came at a crowded...
FOURTH AND LONG - DEADLINE LOOMS FOR ABC TO SELL SUPER BOWL ADS
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amThe clock is ticking to line up advertisers for Super Bowl XL. ABC has refused to say if the Super Bowl is nearing a sellout, fueling talk that the network...
MAGS ROCK BOWL PARTIES; $1M BASHES WILL CLASH
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amWireImage AS the Steelers and Sea hawks put the finishing touches on their game plans, three titans of the men's magazine field, Maxim, Playboy and Sports Illustrated, will clash tomorrow...
IT'S SHOW BUSINESS - FASHION WEEK, THAT FRENZIED, BLUR IS HERE
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amAll it takes is one look at the cover of Glamour magazine's March issue, which touts the 500 looks for spring, to understand fashion's latest conundrum. The choices have become...
MAGS' ROCK - BOWL PARTIES $1M BASHES TO CLASH
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amAS the Steelers and Seahawks put the finishing touches on their game plans, three titans of the men's magazine field, Maxim, Playboy and Sports Illustrated, will clash tomorrow night in...
STARR REPORT
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amPitts' top the news Big day for the Pitts family yesterday: Former "CBS Eve ning News" senior producer Lyne Pitts was named executive producer of NBC's "Today, Weekend Edition," while...
A TOLL ON FILMGOERS
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amTHE TOLLBOOTH * (one star) OY. "The Tollbooth," Debra Kirschner's excruciatingly earnest coming-of-age comedy, is about as fresh as year-old matzoh and plays like the unholy spawn of "Brighton Beach...
ARTFUL PORTRAIT OF A MUSEUM CURATOR
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amWHO GETS TO CALL IT ART?*** (three stars) Portrait of a curator.Running time: 80 minutes. Not rated (nothing objectionable). At Film Forum, Houston Street, west of Sixth Avenue. Through Feb....
BIG FILMS FOR A BIG SCREEN
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amHERE'S an offer you can't refuse - "The Godfather" and other film classics up on a huge screen at New York's last remaining movie palace. That would be the 1,131-seat...
MONSTER MASH; KARLOFF FETED IN FILM FORUM FEST
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amBORIS Karloff, the subject of a 14-film retrospective that opens today at Film Forum, was not only the premier horror film actor in Hollywood's golden age but one of its...
ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT WITH 'TENANTS'
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amTHE TENANTS ** ½ (two and a half stars) Poison pens.Running time: 97 minutes. Rated R (profanity, violence, partial nudity, drug use). At the Empire, 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue....
RACE TO ROMANCE
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amSOMETHING NEW*** (three stars) Buppie pride and prejudice.Running time: 99 minutes. Rated PG-13 (sexual references). At the E-Walk, the 84th Street, the Kips Bay, others. I may not be the...
MACHO BUT NOT MUCHO
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amLA SCORTA ** ½ (two and a half stars) A touch of Untouchables. In Italian, with English subtitles. Running time: 95 minutes. Not rated (violence). At the Two Boots Pioneer...
BACK FROM THE DEAD WITH A KILLER BOD
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amTAMARA ** ½ (two and a half stars) Carrie's slutty sister.Running time: 91 minutes. Rated R (gory violence, profanity, sexuality, teen drinking). At the Village East and the Empire. WHAT...
TEARS FOR THE SON - EBERSOL FAMILY TALKS ABOUT DEADLY PLANE CRASH
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amIN the final weeks of his life, Johnny Carson wrote a letter to NBC Sports boss Dick Ebersol to console the network executive on the death of his young son...
NOT SO WILDE
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amA GOOD WOMAN** (two stars) The cure for Scarlett fever.Running time: 93 minutes. Rated PG (sensuality, mild swearing). At the Empire, the Union Square, the First and 62nd. SCARLETT Johansson...
TRAGIC SUBURBAN TALE NEITHER HARE NOR THERE
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amRABBIT HOLE** (two stars)Biltmore Theatre, 261 W. 47th St.; (212) 239-6200. THERE may be as many patterns of grieving as there are causes for grief. David Lindsay-Abaire's "Rabbit Hole," which...
ABC HASN'T VIEWED VIDEO
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amVIDEOTAPE that might contain footage of the explosion that wounded ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt in Iraq is now in the hands of ABC News executives...
LOW HITS HIGH NOTES
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amLIKE Yo La Tengo, Low is a trio with a husband and wife - who, in this case, are guitarist and singer/songwriter Alan Sparhawk and drummer/singer Mimi Parker, who are...
SHOWTIME GOES TO 'L' AND BACK AGAIN
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amTHE women of "The L Word" are sticking around for another season. Showtime has renewed the show for a fourth season of 12 episodes, scheduled to begin production this summer....
ELTON RE-VAMPS; SINGER ADMITS 'LESTAT' NEEDS A BIT MORE BITE
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amELTON John called yesterday to talk about his critically clobbered new musical, "Lestat," which he finally caught up with last weekend in San Francisco. So what did he think? "After...
ONE MORE FOR BOOK OF 'BALL HOGS'
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amAS SPORTS history books go, there may be none more woefully inad equate than the annual National High School Sports Record Book. The book is loaded with records for individual...
MUSLIM WORLD JUST HYSTERICAL OVER CARTOON
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amHundreds of Palestinian gunmen seized diplomats' offices in the Gaza Strip yesterday, cops braced for riots in Copenhagen, a terrorist group threatened "bloody war" and supermarket shelves were empty in...
SHADOW OF DOUBT IN GROUNDHOG RIFT
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amGroundhog Day turned ugly yesterday as the nation's top two furry forecasters differed sharply on whether spring is coming early or winter is going to stick around. The Big Apple's...
BONO PRAYS FOR AIDS AID; TELLS BUSH: I'D HELP POOR - WOULD U2?
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Rock star Bono brought the house down at a prayer breakfast with President Bush yesterday when he began: "Please join me in praying that I don't say something...
EVEN SMOKERS BACK CIG TAX
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amA big majority of New Yorkers - and many smokers - support Mayor Bloomberg's proposed 50 cent hike in the cigarette tax, which would make the average price $8 a...
MCCAIN GAINS ON THE RIGHT
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amREPUBLICAN conservatives are really warming up to Sen. John McCain as they look ahead to 2008 - and one reason is they are starting to see him as the best...
CHIMNEY SWEEP CREEP
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amThe owner of a Long Island chimney-cleaning business has been charged with ordering his band of "artful dodger" employees to bilk elderly clients. Suffolk County prosecutors said Bryan Borzell, 27,...
TIME'S UP FOR THIS WHINING, LOWLIFE COWARD
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amEVERYTHING about Marlon Legere screamed brutal. In particular, the hulking thug had a stellar record with women - a record that makes you wonder what some humans are made of....
WHACKO WOES; HILLARY WILL SURVIVE 'EM
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amIT was inevitable: The anti-Hillary moment has arrived. Two years before the Iowa caucuses, the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination is getting beaten up all over the place. Her days...
H&R BOOST FOR WTC
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amWith tax season swinging into gear, H&R Block will be helping the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation encourage taxpayers to chip in for the state's memorial fund-raising effort. The tax-preparation...
'HE DIED DOING WHAT HE LOVED' ; MAYOR'S TRIBUTE TO TRUE BLUE COP
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amKevin Lee, the cop who collapsed last Friday after pursuing a teenage shoplifting suspect, "died doing what he loved, what he was born to do," Mayor Bloomberg told mourners who...
OHIO GOP REP GETS DELAY JOB
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - House Republicans, looking for a fresh face to symbolize change at a time of ethics embarrassment, yesterday tapped Ohio Rep. John Boehner as their No. 2 leader to...
HARLEM TOT DROWNS IN BATH: COPS
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amA 9-month-old girl may have drowned in a baby's bathtub after the mother left her alone to tend to the child's twin brother in their Harlem apartment, police said yesterday....
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amMANHATTAN (Sports & Late City Editions) *** Police are asking for help in identifying a thief who stuck up a Chelsea bank yesterday. Cops said the man (above) entered the...
$100 GIFT FOR BAGGED GAL
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amTo cops and the MTA, it's grocery negligence. But as far as the supermarket's concerned, Samantha Hoover had every right to put her bag of meat and vegetables on the...
HILL THROWS $UPPORT TO ANTI-ABORT DEM
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton - who supports abortion rights and is the darling of pro-choice women's groups - gave $10,000 to a staunchly right-to-life candidate in Pennsylvania, The...
WEB BUYERS $MOKED OUT
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amPrice-conscious smokers who thought they landed fantastic bargains on the Internet have been hit by the city with bills totaling nearly $1.4 million, officials said yesterday. A crackdown on tax-free...
TERROR GUARD ON SLOW TRACK
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amThe company that was paid $212 million by the MTA last August to install a high-tech anti-terrorism system in the subways is still testing prototypes, officials said yesterday. Councilman John...
BUS DRIVER'S TINY GOON SQUAD; S.I. COPS BUST BIZARRO LORD OF THE BULLIES
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amA Staten Island school-bus driver treated his passengers like prisoners in a penal camp, deputizing pre-teen enforcers to rough up rowdy students on board and dubbing himself "The Emperor," police...
WIDOW HAS 8M REA$ONS TO BE MERRY
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amThat's a whole lot of bananas! A Long Island widow went ape after winning $8 million in the King Kong scratch-off lottery game. "Wow! This is really great!" exclaimed Barbara...
HOSPS' CREEPY WARNING; SNATCHED BODY PARTS
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amFive Chicago hospitals advised patients yesterday that they may have received transplants harvested by Brooklyn body-part snatchers. Officials said at least 42 transplant recipients in the Chicago area had been...
BAD SPIN ON TEEN PHENOM; HOOPS COACH RIPPED FOR 113-PT. OVERKILL
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amAs high-school basketballer Epiphanny Prince celebrated her record 113-point game yesterday, rival coaches, sports experts and classmates of her beaten opponents lashed out at her coach for letting the city...
CORONER CONFIRMS QUACHAUN HORROR
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amThe 4-year-old Bronx boy who died allegedly at the hands of his mother's boyfriend died from massive blunt impact injuries, the city's Medical Examiner's Office has ruled. Quachaun Browne, who...
COPS CATCH 'DEVIL RAPIST'
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amThe vicious, knife-wielding rapist who terrorized Brooklyn since October, once wearing a frightening devil mask, was nabbed yesterday, cops said. Gerard Mitchell, 29, was picked up across the street from...
EYE-DOC SUIT SLAM
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amThe key expert witness for the celebrity eye doc accused of destroying a woman's sight slammed the patient yesterday as a liar who's changed her story to make a quick...
311 LINE NOW 'DIAL A LAWSUIT'
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amCalling 311 for help could help you win money from the city in a lawsuit. A Manhattan state judge ruled that a Chelsea gallery owner's 311 complaint about a storm...
SMUGGLE PUP SET TO TAKE BITE OUT OF DRUG CRIME; TRAINING AS A SNIFFER
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amA precious pooch forced to carry heroin in her belly for demented dealers in Colombia is set to em-bark on a new career - sniffing out drug smugglers. Heroina -...
JUDGE BARS ACS MOM FROM CHILD
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amA 7-year-old Bronx girl whose mother is charged with slapping her in the face burst into tears after a judge ordered her mom - an Administration for Children's Services worker...
5 YRS. FOR TERROR PLOT
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amA Lebanese-Canadian man who confessed to a plot to smuggle military night-vision goggles and other military equipment to the Hezbollah terror group was sentenced to five years yesterday. Naji Antoine...
DIMITRY PARK-BEATING ACCUSER BACK IN COURT
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amTwice now, a middle-aged, 5-foot-5 chauffeur named Rene Perez has bravely faced down the prime suspect in the grisly 2004 murder of a Juilliard student. The first time was last...
PROF-ATTACK PSYCHO EXAM
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amA crazed man accused of stabbing an NYU music professor with a screwdriver was charged yesterday with assault and weapons possession and ordered held without bail pending psychiatric evaluation. Mark...
'FAKE BRITNEY' DEATH SUIT KO'D
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amALBANY - An upstate radio station is off the hook for the death of a woman taken in by a hoax involving a fake Britney Spears. In June 2000, Clear...
DAD BUSTED FOR KID'S SCHOOL GUN
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amA Queens father has been busted for weapons possession after his 13-year-old daughter was caught carrying his loaded gun into her Ozone Park school, officials said yesterday. Raymond Samuels' daughter...
NEW RAP VS. KNICK 'RAGE' WIFE
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amThe hot-headed wife of Knicks star Antonio Davis is in trouble again, two weeks after she got into an argument with a fan that prompted her husband to leap into...
OTB 'KILLER,' 71, A PAL OF VICTIM
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amAn elderly Brooklyn bookie was arrested yesterday for shooting to death his friend of 20 years at an Off-Track Betting parlor, police and acquaintances said. Frank Guccione, 71, was charged...
'LITTER' FROM ABROAD; BRIT REPLY TO L.I. BOTTLE
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amHopeless romantic or transatlantic lit terbug? A salty ol' Long Island sailor is scratching his head after sending out a message in a bottle and getting a reply from Eng...
WTC FUND'S H&R BOOST
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amWith tax season swinging into gear, H&R Block will be helping the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation encourage taxpayers to chip in for the state's memorial fund-raising effort. The tax-preparation...
MTA CAM JAM
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amThe company paid $212 million by the MTA last August to install a high-tech anti-terrorism camera system in the subways is still testing prototypes, officials said yesterday. Councilman John Liu...
'TOXIC' SLAM VS. CHRISTIE
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amA federal judge slammed ex-EPA honcho Christie Whitman for downplaying the World Trade Center toxic-dust danger and speeding the return of residents and workers to lower Manhattan. "No reasonable person...
QUEENS GI AMONG 3 DEAD IN BAGHDAD BLAST
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amA Queens soldier, who dreamed of joining the NYPD when his tour of duty in Iraq ended, was one of three GIs killed by a roadside bomb in Baghdad, his...
GYPSY LULLABY-BYE; MOM, 14, RUNS OFF WITH TOT
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amA 14-year-old Queens Gypsy girl grabbed her 3-week-old daughter and ran off with the 21-year-old husband her mother forced her to leave, relatives said yesterday. The mother, Sonya Spiro, 39,...
REDESIGNED BILL A PERFECT 10
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amThe $10 bill has gotten a face-lift. On March 2, a new sawbuck will be dropped on the country. It has more color, additional anti-counterfeiting measures, and a larger picture...
COPS HOT ON TRAIL OF DOWNTOWN SPA RAPIST
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amA convicted sexual predator is being sought for allegedly raping a woman at a Lower East Side day spa, authorities said yesterday. Allen Johnson, 36, was identified as a suspect...
GIRLS' BOOT CAMP - FASHION WEEK KICKS OFF WITH THE ARMY LOOK
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amTen-hut! Teenybopper clothier Miss Sixty kicked off Fashion Week last night with a military-inspired collection heavy on black, boots and denim. Models marched down the runway wearing distressed outfits in...
FASHION BUZZ - TALLEY UP ALL OF ANDRE'S VUITTON 'FREEBIES'
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amIT'S good to be the best friend of Vogue editor-in- chief Anna Wintour. Bigfoot fashionista Andre Leon Talley, the style bible's editor-at-large and unofficial mascot, is said to have a...
LOBBY LIST REVEALS THE HIGH PRICE OF INFLUENCE
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amAs the city examines the power that lobbyists exert on municipal government, new figures show the top influence-peddlers are hauling in big bucks. According to a list compiled by the...
RAP ON KNICK WIFE - DRIVER LEVELS CHARGES
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amThe hot-headed wife of Knicks star Antonio Davis is in trouble again - two weeks after she got into an argument with a fan that prompted her husband to leap...
DIMITRY PARK ACCUSER IN COURT
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amTwice now, a middle-aged, 5-foot-5 chauffeur named Rene Perez has bravely faced down the prime suspect in the grisly 2004 murder of a Juilliard student. The first time was last...
DOG-KILL SUSPECT WALKS - NO PROOF IN CASE
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amA year ago, prosecutors branded him a dog killer - capable of literally bludgeoning a miniature collie to death, then leaving the blood-matted corpse in his girlfriend's bathtub. They even...
DOG-DEATH SUSPECT CLEARED
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amA year ago, prosecutors branded him a dog killer - capable of literally bludgeoning a miniature collie to death, then leaving the blood-matted corpse in his girlfriend's bathtub. They even...
COP-SLAY SLIME IS GUILTY - JURY REJECTS 'SELF-DEFENSE'
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amA Brooklyn jury took less than six hours to convict an ex-con yesterday of gunning down two detectives, prompting tears and gasps from a courtroom packed solid with fellow cops...
FATAL FAKE BRITNEY SUIT DISMISSED
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amALBANY - An upstate radio station is off the hook for the death of a woman taken in by a hoax involving a fake Britney Spears. The tragic story began...
JUDGE SLAMS EX-EPA CHIEF OVER WTC HAZARD
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amA federal judge slammed ex-EPA honcho Christie Whitman for downplaying the World Trade Center toxic-dust danger, and speeding the return of residents and workers to Lower Manhattan. "No reasonable person...
OHIOAN IN DELAY JOB
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - House Republicans, looking for a fresh face to symbolize change at a time of ethics embarrassment, yesterday tapped Ohio Rep. John Boehner as their No. 2 leader to...
17-POUNDER IS A HARE-RAISING RABBIT
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amWhat a wabbit! German Giant, one of the biggest bunnies on the face of the planet, tips the scales at 17 pounds - almost seven pounds more than the average...
311 IS 'DIAL A SUIT' - INFO-LINE SHOCKER
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amCalling 311 for help could help you win money from the city in a lawsuit. A Manhattan state judge ruled that a Chelsea gallery owner's 311 complaint about a storm...
STALLED STEPH ; KNICKS WILL MISS MARBURY TONIGHT
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amStephon Marbury's mother told him he didn't look right after he scored 14 points in a 91-76 loss to Philadelphia last week, and he should let his injured shoulder get...
BROWN: LET'S WIN WITH GUYS WE HAVE
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Larry Brown spent some time chatting with team president Isiah Thomas during the end of practice yesterday, and he didn't appear to be begging the embattled executive for...
SIR GREELEY TOPS FUNNY CIDE
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amSmell of roses is in air this week. In mile allowance yesterday at Gulfstream Park, 2003 Kentucky Derby winner Funny Cide, 6-year-old gelding making his second start of year, finished...
PAYING RESPECT ; HAWKS EARNED PICK OVER STEELERS
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amSOMEWHERE up there, Rodney Dangerfield is smiling down on the Seahawks. Talk about getting no respect! First, the Seahawks are installed as underdogs in Super Bowl XL despite having a...
HOME, SWEET HOME ; ROAD SLOG FINALLY OVER FOR NETS
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amForgive the Nets if they dial 9 every time they pick up their home phones for a while. Expect them to call for room service whenever hunger strikes. Hey, it...
BUBBA MAKES IT FUND FOR ALL ; CROSBY'S EXTRA DUTY PAYS OFF FOR TELETHON
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amThis past Sunday in Albany, Bubba Crosby was helping out at a telethon for the Center for Disability Services. After signing autographs for several hours, the Yankee outfielder was supposed...
WARD OF HONOR; RING WOULD CARVE HINES' NAME IN STEEL
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amDETROIT - Hines Ward has made the last four Pro Bowls as the Steelers' top receiver. He also has cemented himself in the Steelers' record books, having surpassed franchise greats...
FARMER'S MAKING RUTGERS GROW
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amRUTGERS coach Gary Waters is usually short and succinct during his press conferences. He works the room in a hurry, with quick glares and quicker answers. To borrow his theme,...
TEAMMATES BACKING UP STEVENS, BUS
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amDETROIT Teammates of Seahawks tight end Jerramy Stevens came to his defense yesterday after learning of the threats and hostility directed at him by Steelers linebacker Joey Porter over comments...
UN-'4'-GETTABLE ; DEVILS SET FOR STEVENS' CEREMONY
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amThis is pure, not all hyped to heaven. It isn't about one curse-busting spring, the way the other one was last month. This is about the greatest defenseman of these...
HAWKS WON'T PLAY SOFTBALL
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amDETROIT - Joey Porter barked and snarled and did all he could to turn the Seahawks into punks yesterday. That's how Porter gets his motor going, a successful self-promotion considering...
WANAMAKER KING ; BACK IN MILLROSE SPOTLIGHT
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amWhen the 99th Millrose Games go off tonight as one of the best meets in years, the women's 60-meter dash and the men's shot-put will be center stage as Olympic-caliber...
N.J. BILL TARGETS BEAR HUNT
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amTHE bear hunting season in New Jersey has long been over, but it looks as if the controversy will probably never end. The hunt is coming under fire again in...
HOLY COW! RIZZUTO IS STILL SCOOTING
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amPHIL Rizzuto sat at a corner table yesterday morning at Mickey Mantle's Restaurant and, for a while it was paradise at the dashboard light again for anyone who had ever...
GOIN' BROWN THE DRAIN
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amLARRY Brown's solution to every problem is change. We're talking marriage (switched wives three times), head coaching jobs (nine in the pros and two in college, excluding a two-week off-season...
JETS CHECKING OUT N.J. PRACTICE SITES
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amThe Jets yesterday announced five potential sites for their proposed new practice facility in New Jersey. The towns include Berkeley Heights, Florham Park, Jersey City, Millburn and Wood-Ridge. The Jets...
RANGERS ROLL
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amRangers 5Islanders 2 The canyon-like divide between the two New York hockey teams never seemed as wide as it did last night, with the Islanders for the better part of...
RANGERS HAVE WEEKES' BACK
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amTHE emergence in nets of King Henrik of Sweden has been one of the feel-good stories in modern Ranger history. Rarely, if ever, has a Ranger freshman been able to...
CBS SPORTS SAYS, BONNIE VOYAGE - BERNSTEIN A GONER; ARMEN LOOKS NEWS-BOUND
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amWhile Bonnie Bernstein is finished as a CBS Sports sideline reporter, Armen Keteyian could be headed to CBS News, NYP TV Sports has learned. CBS News and Sports executives confirmed...
MARCHAND'S MEMO OF THE WEEK
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amTo: ESPN executives From: Andrew Marchand Re: Monday Night Football CC: Tony Kornheiser Dear execs, We're not sure it would work, but we think putting Tony Kornheiser of Pardon the...
5 QUESTIONS FOR MICHAEL STRAHAN
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amThis week, NYP TV Sports' Andrew Marchand spoke with Giant defensive linemen Michael Strahan. Strahan, 34, has been a guest host all week on Fox Sports Net's The Best Damn...
HEAVYWEIGHT BATTLE! THE MATCHUP THAT WILL DECIDE SUPE XL
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amSuper Bowl Sunday Steelers vs. Seahawks 6 p.m. - ABC It is the Super Bowl, but it might as well be a heavyweight fight. In one corner, wearing No. 55...
THE PORT AUTHORITY - JOEY CONTINUES TO STEEL THE SUPER SHOW
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amDETROIT - The way Joey Porter sees it, what Jerramy Stevens did by opening his mouth and creating the tiny spark that Porter eagerly turned into a raging inferno provided...
DOME OFFICE - BROOKLYNITE GOES FROM MIDTOWN DESK TO HELPING STEELERS PREP FOR BOWL
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amDETROIT - How do you win the lottery and barely collect a dime? How do you contribute to the biggest sporting event of your life and never even slip on...
SLICK WILLIE - STEELER RB SLIPS UNDER RADAR, PAST DEFENSES
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amDETROIT - Willie Parker isn't merely the "other running back" to Shaun Alexander in Super Bowl XL. He is the "other running back" on his own team. Fast Willie, who...
WALLACE COULD BE HAWKS' GADGET MAN
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amDETROIT - The sight of Cincinnati's Carson Palmer going down and forced out on the very first play of a playoff loss to the Steelers is living proof of the...
CHA-CHANGE: NFL RETURN$ TO NBC
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amGEE, is there anything money can't do? Consider that NBC, because the NFL deemed that NBC's money was right, later this year re-enters the NFL mix, having sat out since...
ISLES CHASE PLAYOFF PACK
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amThe past two seasons the Islanders qualified for the eighth and final Eastern Conference playoff position, gaining entry to the postseason tournament by the skin of their teeth. The Islanders...
BACKUP WEEKES STAYING STRONG
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amNOT since the 1968-69 season in which Don Simmons acted as the backup to Ed Giacomin has there been such angst in Ranger Country over the No. 2 netminder getting...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
February 3, 2006 | 5:00amRobert William Huff punched Bailey the police horse, and he may be in deep doo-doo for it - literally. Huff, 24, of Oroville, Calif., was sentenced to 20 hours of...