October 9, 2006
Day Whatever of pre-season
By FRED KERBERJay Williams is constantly reminded of his good fortune. And it makes him cringe. "Every day I go on the Turnpike and I see guys fly by me...
HOPEFULLY SWEET LOU IS A BETTER MANAGER THAN HE IS AN ACTOR
By ANDREW MARCHANDLou Piniella claims he was "stunned" about reports that he may be the next manager of the Yankees.Please. Piniella has been hoping for Joe Torre's job since the...
Still Steinbrenner After All These Years
BY JAY GREENBERGThe Cubs, National and Giants may all want Lou Piniella, which means the George Steinbrenner we knew before Joe Torre made the Yankee owner successful like he hadn't...
JUST BACK: So hungry, I could eat Connecticut
Anyone ever searching for a place in Ohio still offering Hot Dish without irony, or wondering about those pizza places in New Haven that your annoying Yalie friend wouldn't shut...
LISTS: Where to hide out this fall
Andrew Harper's Hideaway Report has, for years, been the high-end traveler's bible. If one can call a monthly newsletter a bible. (In this case, you can.)This newsletter does not come...
SUNDAY SECTIONS: Oct 8
Moscow correspondent pulls a cover story together (wine in Georgia), accounting department rejoices [NYT]Psst! Cruising is fun! It is also for kids! [NYDN]"Savannah is like a box of chocolates. You...
DOLAN POWER GRAB; AIMING TO GO PRIVATE
Cablevision's ruling Dolan family has asked the company's board to consider a $27 a share bid to take the media giant private and put its vast cable system, Madison Square...
TV HITS ARE A NO SHOW AS THEIR SIZZLE FIZZLES
The prime-time television season has produced some modest successes but no major hits despite the strongest crop of new shows in a long time, ad buyers said. After several seasons...
TRUMP'S RX TO KEEP DREAMING
Donald Trump is warning that America will soon be home to just two classes of people - the rich and the poor - with little chance left to claw together...
ON THE MOVE - SWAMI SAYS - INDIAN SPIRITUALIST IS THE GO-GETTER'S GURU
FROM Bombay to the boardroom, Swami Parthasarathy is breaking it down - to shine in the corporate world, employees have to learn how to manage, control and inspire themselves. And...
TRESS STRESS ; TV IS EASY, HAIR IS HARD
"Hair Trauma" Wednesday night at 10 on WE (one star) WE'S new six-part reality series, "Hair Trauma," set at LaVar's New York City Salon, should really be called "Hair Today...
DINER NOT DASHING
OPERA ROUNDUP AT CITY OPERA AND MET"L'Elisir d'Amore" performances to Nov. 16 at New York City Opera, Lincoln Center; (212) 721-6500. "Faust," performances to March 17, and "Die Zauberflote," performances...
SIT. STAY. WATCH.
"Off the Leash" Tonight at 8 on Lifetime (two and a half stars) WHO wants to read a column full of dog puns? Hopefully, you do, because that's what you're...
'MONDAY NIGHT' LIGHTS - ESPN BREAKS INTO BROADCAST RANKS
WHEN "Monday Night Football" moved from overtheair TV to cable last month, it was hard not to think that - after 36 years - the show was being benched. The...
STARR REPORT
Touchet, Martha? There seems to be some trouble a-brewin' on the set of "The Martha Stewart Show." Starr Report spywitnesses say Martha Stewart has clashed with co-executive producer Rob Dauber...
FIT FOR A QUEEN - 'MARIE ANTOINETTE' RULES THE RUNWAYS
BEFORE Paris Hilton, before Madonna, before even Elizabeth Taylor, there was Marie Antoinette. Best known for unparalleled decadence, irrepressible frivolity and dissing the poverty-stricken masses by announcing, "Let them eat...
MAGGIE CAN STAY; WINS FIGHT WITHVILLAGE LANDLORDS
A Manhattan judge has given a legal spanking to two Greenwich Village landlords who were trying to evict actress Maggie Gyllenhaal and her family. The landlords started eviction proceedings against...
PATAKI LOCKUP BAGS 118 PEDOS
ALBANY - Gov. Pataki has quietly kept dozens of New York's sickest sexual predators locked up past their scheduled release dates - confining them to mental institutions, The Post has...
MTA WILL HAVE YOU ON VIDEOTAPE - FOREVER
Watch out, rail-riding rogues - the MTA's new security cameras will not have a delete button. Most video-surveillance tapes get erased every couple of days or weeks. But when the...
KILLER COULD WALK; DWI-LAW LOOPHOLE
A Brooklyn man who allegedly sniffed a can of computer keyboard cleaner before driving into oncoming traffic and killing a 17-year-old girl could get a break, because of a loophole...
IT'S DEARLY 'DEPARTED' FOR MARTIN
"The Departed," Martin Scorsese's much-anticipated mob caper starring Jack Nicholson, rubbed out the box-office competition this weekend, collecting a cool $27 million. With Scorsese returning to his wiseguy roots, "The...
SHOCKING BROOKLYN STREET SLAY
A disabled Brooklyn man who lived with his elderly mother was gunned down yesterday morning as he returned from walking his girlfriend to a bus stop, cops and witnesses said....
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
MANHATTAN *** A teenager was shot in the leg yesterday when an argument turned violent on a Harlem street, police sources said. The 17-year-old and two friends were walking on...
GUN IRE FROM MIKE
After traveling to Massachusetts and Pennsylvania in recent weeks to fight for stricter gun laws, Mayor Bloomberg brought his message back to the Big Apple yesterday. At Allen AME Church...
I BEDDED FOLEY: EX-PAGE
WASHINGTON - Disgraced former Rep. Mark Foley had sex with a 21-year-old man who had left the congressional page program, the ex-page claims in a shocking new report. Teen pages...
KID-KILLING MOMS BOND ON PSYCH WARD
Andrea Yates, the Texas woman who drowned her five kids, and Dena Schlosser, who fatally cut off her baby's arms as a sacrifice to God, have become friends. The two,...
PEEKABOO PARIS; DITZY HILTON GETS CAUGHT HOLDING BAG
Oh, to live the high life! Here, celebutante Paris Hilton is snapped while applying some lip gloss at a Milan dance joint. But the photo captures more than just the...
HASTERT SKIPPING MIKE'S GOP $OIREE
WASHINGTON - Beleaguered House Speaker Dennis Hastert has backed out of a big-bucks fund-raiser at Mayor Bloomberg's mansion, according to Republican aides. Hastert, an Illinois Republican who is a fund-raising...
B'KLYN BIZMAN KILLS TWO AND SELF IN N.J.; FAMILY FEUD OVER MONEY LED TO HORROR
A Brooklyn businessman fighting with relatives over finances stormed a posh New Jersey home and gunned down his sister-in-law and her husband, shot the slain man's father and then committed...
KARAOKE BAR FIGHT KILLS ONE
A group of thugs clubbed a young man to death in a Queens karaoke bar yesterday after he and a friend tried to stop a fight, cops said. Junghwa Lee,...
YANK ACES GO TO BAT FOR TORRE; JETER, RIVERA: BLAME US
Don't blame Joe. That's the message Yankee captain Derek Jeter and ace closer Mariano Rivera had for their boss and any other critics of manager Joe Torre for the Bronx...
MAN FREED BY DNA 'BRUTALIZED' IN PRISON
Newly freed Scott Fappiano said yesterday prison guards brutalized him during the two decades he was locked up for a crime he did not commit, the 1983 rape of a...
HIGH MARKS FOR SCHOOL NEPOTISM BAN
Two years after a pair of top city education officials were ousted in a nepotism flap, not a single employee of the public-school system is overseeing a relative or business...
CAB KILLS HORSE IN QNS.; BOY RIDER IS HURT IN COLLISION
A horse ridden by a 13-year-old galloped into traffic and was broadsided by a cab in Queens yesterday - killing the animal and critically injuring the boy. The youngster's pal,...
UNION SUED OVER ROLE GALL IN WILL SMITH FILM
Some editions of Monday's Post incorrectly attributed allegations that the Screen Actors Guild is looking the other way over the hiring of non-union workers on the Will Smith movie "I...
RACIAL PROFILE UPROAR; POLICE CAPT.'S 'ORDER'
An NYPD Transit captain in Brooklyn ordered his officers to stop all black male teens at a Park Slope subway station in response to robberies there, sources said yesterday. Capt....
THUGS BEAT B'KLYN MAN IN VICIOUS 'BIAS' BASH
A man was beaten, chased into traffic and hit by a car, and then dragged off the road and pummeled again by his attackers in a possible hate crime reminiscent...
PATAKI'S PERV PUSH PAYS OFF
ALBANY - Gov. Pataki has quietly kept dozens of New York's sickest sexual predators locked up past their scheduled release dates - confining them to mental institutions, The Post has...
AMISH KILLER'S PALS IN '91 SLAY
As a teen, Amish schoolhouse killer Charles Roberts worked at a restaurant with two people involved in the brutal murder of a 16-year-old girl in 1991, it was revealed yesterday....
NO FIRING OFFENSE; ALDS LOSS ASIDE, BOSS MUST KEEP TORRE
THE YANKEES need changes. They need to continue to become more athletic, to add three-fifths of a new rotation, to get more players with upsides, not on their downsides. They...
UNION ROLE GALL; WILL SMITH FLICK FUROR
Some editions of Monday's Post incorrectly attributed allegations that the Screen Actors Guild is looking the other way over the hiring of non-union workers on the Will Smith movie "I...
NEPOTISM BAN WORKS IN SCHOOLS
Two years after a pair of top city education officials were ousted in a nepotism flap, not a single employee of the public school system is overseeing a relative or...
FANS MARK LENNON'S 66TH TODAY
Just imagine - John Lennon would have turned 66 today. Many adoring fans of the slain Beatle will head to Central Park's Strawberry Fields today to celebrate the birthday of...
DEALING THE CARDS; TRANSIT PASSES HIT THE BLACK MARKET
Rather than pay retail to ride the rails, some straphangers are buying their MetroCards at huge discounts on the black market. The MTA charges $76 for a monthly MetroCard, but...
N.Y. POLS WINNERS IF DEMS TAKE D.C.
WASHINGTON - New York lawmakers are poised to pound gavels as powerful congressional committee bosses should Democrats win control of the House and Senate next month amid the GOP congressional...
THE BORAT TRAP'S BIG CATCH; HOW FAKE KAZAKH FOOLED A FEMINIST
WHAT'S a hard-core feminist gal to do? Linda Stein is a serious artist and a tough, smart lady - possessing a master's degree, a striking set of pectorals and a...
MADAM LAVI$HED ON GAL LOVER: MAG
A Manhattan madam accused of enticing high-paid executives into becoming her "sugar daddies" once tried to turn the tables and become a "sugar mommy" - by showering her sexy lesbian...
POWER FIGHT IN COLLAPSING GOP
AS NEW YORK Democrats cruise toward stunning November election victories, badly divided state Republicans are choosing up sides for the bitter post-ballot battle to come. State GOP Chairman Stephen Minarik,...
COMIC GAL'S 'MINX' TALE ENDS HAPPILY
A woman who dresses up as a scantily clad superheroine named Minx no longer has to worry about getting a dressing down from DC Comics. The Superman publisher had sent...
NEW WEB SITE MAPS OUT PERVS
It's an atlas of atrocities. An Indianapolis tech whiz has created a new system on the Web to map the residences of sexual degenerates, so people can find out how...
COP'S SON WARY OVER SLAY PROBE
The youngest son of a cop gunned down inside a Nation of Islam mosque 34 years ago says he's pleased - but a little skeptical - about a new NYPD...
CAB KILLS HORSE IN QNS. - BOY RIDER IS HURT IN COLLISION
Two boys' afternoon of horseback riding in Queens came to a tragic end yesterday when one of their horses got spooked and tried to jump a cab, tossing his teen...
JERSEY BIZMAN KILLS 2 & SELF - FAMILY FEUD OVER MONEY LED TO HORROR
A Brooklyn businessman fighting with relatives over finances stormed a posh New Jersey home and gunned down his sister-in-law and her husband, shot the slain man's father and then committed...
EERIE SLAY LINK - AMISH KILLER KNEW '91 TEEN MURDERERS
As a teenager, rampage killer Charles Roberts worked at a restaurant with two people who were involved in the brutal stalking murder of a 16-year-old girl in 1991, it was...
THE LAVAR SIDE ; NO POINTED TALK FROM ARRINGTON
With the glow of a 19-3 Giants victory over his ex-team, the Redskins, shining on the Meadowlands scoreboard yesterday, LaVar Arrington beamed on the sideline. Under his dreadlocks, Arrington wore...
THE MOVES TO MAKE; YANKS NEED BOLD OFFSEASON PLAN
STARTING with Joe Torre, this offseason will be more about whom the Yankees remove than whom they pursue. The history with the Yankees is to open their wallet in the...
ZIM TO GEORGE: DON'T BOOT JOE
If George Steinbrenner fires Joe Torre, The Boss will be making a huge mistake. So says former Torre lieutenant Don Zimmer. "If that happens it will be one of the...
PENALTIES MAKE AFTERNOON ROUGH
JET NOTES JACKSONVILLE - Though the sequences had nothing to do with the outcome of the game, the Jets were victimized by two atrocious roughing-the-passer penalties called on linebackers Jonathan...
OMAR'S BULLPEN PAYS OFF
LOS ANGELES - As the Mets celebrated wildly in their clubhouse Saturday night, a visitor quietly walked in to offer congratulations on their three-game sweep of the Dodgers. The moment...
NOT THE T.O. SHOW ; OWENS NO FACTOR AS EAGLES RIP 'BOYS
Eagles 38Cowboys 24 PHILADELPHIA - The Cowboys and Eagles waged a terrific NFC East battle yesterday at Lincoln Financial Field. Too bad Terrell Owens didn't have much to do with...
GIANTS SAVE THEIR SKINS; BIG BLUE RESPONDS TO 'DIRE SITUATION'
GIANTS 19 REDSKINS 3 It wasn't the bye-week break that convinced center Shaun O'Hara the Giants would tend to business when they faced the Redskins. It was the week of...
WANG: I COULD'VE PITCHED GAME 4
Chien-Ming Wang says he could have pitched on three days' rest. It didn't help the Yankees' cause that the best pitcher they had this season was home Saturday watching the...
AGENT: LOU NOT EYEING YANKS' JOB
George Steinbrenner, hasn't mentioned Lou Piniella as a replacement for Joe Torre should he fire the Yankees manager, but if Torre is boxed, Piniella is the favorite to take over....
NOT THE T.O. SHOW ; OWENS BARELY A BLIP IN PHILLY RETURN
Eagles 38Cowboys 24 PHILADELPHIA - Maybe Terrell Owens is starting to realize playing with Donovan McNabb wasn't such a bad thing after all. It had to be better than playing...
BRING ON THE CARDS - METS LOOK AHEAD TO NLCS FOE
LOS ANGELES - The Cardinals are the obstacle. The Mets will be going against the Cardinals in the NLCS, as St. Louis earned its third straight berth in the NLCS...
DEVILS, LOU FACE MORE CAP ISSUES
It's hasn't been a week yet since Lou Lamoriello escaped his salary cap jam, but it isn't over yet. The Devils GM has gone with a one-short roster of 22...
NETS LIKE COLLINS' GRITTY PLAY
If Jason Collins were to be judged strictly on statistics for the Nets, the sentence would be death. He averaged 3.6 points and 4.8 rebounds last season and yet his...
HEAVY WAIT CHAMPS BRING ON THE CARDS; METS LOOK AHEAD TO NLCS FOE
LOS ANGELES - Chris Carpenter was slated to start for the Cardinals last night, the St. Louis ace attempting to send the team into the NLCS. The Mets will face...
WAGS SEES NEW FRONTIER
MET NOTES LOS ANGELES - Billy Wagner had seen the postseason four different times before 2006. The second round of the postseason, though, was foreign to him. That's about to...
MO DEFENDS JOE; CLOSER: WE DIDN'T DO OUR JOBS
Mariano Rivera and Joe Torre have been inseparably linked in Yankee history. Rivera doesn't want that to end. The future Hall of Fame closer has been a crucial cornerstone through...
GUIDRY: TORRE DID BEST JOB
Louisiana Lightning stepped up for Joe Torre yesterday, calling this season's managerial job "the best" he's seen from the longtime Yankees skipper. Pitching coach Ron Guidry was blindsided by rumors...
DING DONG, YANKS ARE DEAD
LOS ANGELES - Perhaps now the people who cheer for the Mets can exhibit the same kind of free, easy confidence as the people who play for the Mets. Perhaps...
DON'T STICK THAT FORK INTO FLOYD
LOS ANGELES - Amid the champagne-soaked celebration in the Mets' clubhouse Saturday night, Cliff Floyd stood near a table in the middle of the room, bottle in hand, vowing his...
A-ROD A FACTOR AS PINIELLA LOU-MS
ALEX Rodriguez may turn out to be a more powerful force in the Yankee front office this October than on the field. Joe Torre is in trouble - big trouble...
TORRE STORY - SOURCE: JOE IS ON HIS WAY OUT
George Steinbrenner is leaning toward firing Joe Torre because he is furious at losing in the Division Series for a second straight season, largely blames his manager for this setback...
WANG WAS READY FOR GAME 4
Chien-Ming Wang says he could have pitched on three days' rest. It didn't help the Yankees' cause that the best pitcher they had this season was home Saturday watching the...
JOE AND TELL - TORRE'S ENDING, LIKE THOSE BEFORE HIM WON'T BE HAPPY
LOS ANGELES - When it ends, it will not end pretty, because it never ends pretty when you occupy the manager's office at Yankee Stadium. When Joe Torre started accumulating...
A BLANK LOOK - JETS DO NOTHING RIGHT IN WORST LOSS SINCE '86
JAGUARS 41 JETS 0 JACKSONVILLE - The Jets flew back to New York late last night wondering why they bothered to board their Saturday charter flight to Jacksonville in the...
SKINS PLAY 'DIRTY'
The end of a one-sided and fairly routine 19-3 Giants victory ended yesterday with some angry accusations and threats, with running back Brandon Jacobs accusing the Redskins of being "a...
ALTER EGO - ISIAH'S KNICKS CAMP HAS BEEN THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF BROWN'S
The first week of Knicks training camp was not unlike the famous Seinfeld episode when George Costanza did everything opposite of his intuition. Isiah Thomas is now in the role...
IT'S THE PITCHING, STUPID!
THE most unbelievable element of the Yanks' loss to the Tigers is the disbelief expressed by the media, by the folks who should know better. For some reason you're supposed...
GOOD 'INTENTIONS'
Great Intentions, 7-5 favorite coupled with Nothing But Fun in Grade 2, $150,000 Gallant Bloom Handicap for fillies and mares at 6½ furlongs, dueled for lead with 2-1 Win McCool...
BERNARDINI EYES CLASSIC MATCHUP
The day after his dominating victory in Saturday's Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park, all systems were go for Bernardini to tackle his toughest task ever - the Nov....
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A Mississippi man loves ESPN and Joe Montana so much, he's named his firstborn son after both the cable-TV network and the football great. ESPN Montana Real was born last...
Still Steinbrenner After All These Years
BY JAY GREENBERGThe Cubs, National and Giants may all want Lou Piniella, which means the George Steinbrenner we knew before Joe Torre made the Yankee owner successful like he hadn't...