February 18, 2007
Ranger Roller Coaster Ride Continues
February 18, 2007 | 10:34pmAfter yesterday's devastating loss to Philly, the Rangers came back today with a sound win over Chicago. While it wasn't a blowout, Lundqvist was solid between the pipes and the...
Yankees contract woes
February 18, 2007 | 10:15pmBy GEORGE KINGIs he coming? Is he retiring?Mariano Riveraâs anxiety over a contract extension that is not coming dominated the early days of the Yankeesâ camp. Joe Torreâs lame-duck status...
Star Search
February 18, 2007 | 8:21pmAntonella Barba, the âAmerican Idolâ semi-finalist from Point Pleasant, N.J., has suddenly emerged as the favorite, according to Yahoo Buzz.The Yahoo search count cannot predict how people will vote when...
Must-See DVD
February 18, 2007 | 3:01pmBusby Berkeley's "The Gang's All Here'' (1943), which apparently has never been legitimately available in this country on video in any format, finally debuts on DVD Tuesday and it's a...
Day 9: Be Cautious About Prospects
February 18, 2007 | 1:35pmThe No. 1 pitching prospect in the majors entering the 2004 season, according to Baseball America, was Edwin Jackson followed by fellow Dodger Greg Miller. In 2003, the No. 1...
NOT SO FAST
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amThe survivors who think they have everything shouldn't get too comfortable. In the past, "Survivor" has employed male/female, old/young and -- most memorably last season -- separation by race. This...
SPECIAL EFFECTS PROS GIVE 'GREY'S' GRIT
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amIn her big debut on ABC's "Grey's Anatomy," Elizabeth Reaser was rendered unrecognizable due to the extensive efforts of special effects artists Tom Burman and Bari Dreiban-Burman. But in her...
GAY FOR PAY
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amAfter a sensational turn as Smith Jerrod, Samantha's sex toy-turned-serious boyfriend on "Sex and the City," Jason Lewis is back on prime time, but this time, he's gay. Well, sort...
CELEB PITCHES MORE SUSPECT THAN EVER
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amIf we look and listen hard enough, the death of Anna Nicole Smith, at age 39, could provide an illuminating angle beyond who fathered her daughter. Smith was a primary...
REEL GOOD
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amMISTER ROBERTS (1955) Tuesday, 3 p.m., AMC A comedy/drama about the men on a forgettable cargo ship during WWII. There's Roberts (Henry Fonda), an officer who wants off the ship...
THE DON'T MISS LIST
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amCOMEDY Sex, 'wives' & pizza Tom and Lynette are finally opening their restaurant, Pizzeria Scavo, on "Desperate Housewives," and all of Wisteria Lane's residents show up to give them good...
HOW OPRAH OWNS THE OSCARS
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amMove over, Barbara Walters. Oprah Winfrey has her sights on becoming the new ABC Queen of the Oscars. Beating her rival to the punch, Oprah Winfrey is hosting her first...
RAINN MAN
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amRainn Wilson insists he's nothing like Dwight Schrute, the scheming, paranoid paper salesman he plays on "The Office." And yet, Wilson does have his idiosyncrasies such as naming his dogs...
GRAND MASTERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amChess NEARLY 20 years ago, a new trade union - the Grand Masters Association - organized a series of elite tournaments called the World Cup, in which virtually all of...
DOG-GONE COLD!
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amWith arctic conditions driving New Yorkers to bundle up, what about our dogs? If yours has a thick, woolly coat, he won't need an additional thermal layer. But short-coated dogs...
THE CAT LADY
February 18, 2007 | 10:00am'I have two cats, and my new boyfriend doesn't like cats at all. What should I do?" This is a question that I get often, and usually my first response...
ADOPT ME
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amAt only 11 months old, little Marka, a Yorkie/Brussells Griffon mix has a whole lifetime ahead of her to make someone happy. Meet her from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m....
HOT SEAT
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amRichard Lewis built the strongest stand-up comedy career on a blazing trail of neuroses since Woody Allen. The inventor of the phrase "The ___ from hell," Lewis, who plays Comix...
CULT OF THE CAVEMAN
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amLIKE the original Cro-Magnons, the "cavemen" in Geico's car insurance ads have evolved slowly - into pop icons. It began in 2004 with 15-second spot. A TV announcer bellowed, "It's...
HOT LIST
February 18, 2007 | 10:00am1 Bitter reunions After lashing out at each other on their MySpace pages, Shanna Moakler and Travis Barker - once the sweetest of TV couples - seem to have made...
A VERY HARRY
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amHARRY Potter is not going to die. But Professor Snape will. Harry Potter will not hook up with Hermione. But his best friend will. And Harry Potter will never see...
OUR GAL WHO HAS MET J.K.
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amIT'S BEEN almost 10 years, 325 million books, 3,000 pages and $3 billion in box-office receipts since we first met Harry Potter. In that time, he's risen from curious literary...
REQUIRED READING
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amESSAY collections get a bad wrap. Too many of them are lazily assembled pieces to remind the public that the author still exists, or the work is so bland that...
GREAT F. SCOTT
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amChris Bohjalian's most commercial success came with 1997's "Midwives," an Oprah Book Club selection. But scratch the surface, and you'll find so much more. "Trans-Sister Radio" is the story of...
'FIELDWORK' OF DREAMS
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amLovers of backpacker lit - a growing genre that encompasses Alex Garland's "The Beach," Katy Gardner's "Losing Gemma" and Scott Landers' "Coswell's Guide to Tambralinga" - will fervently thumb through...
EVERYBODY'S BEEN BURNED
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amEVERY couple goes through a honeymoon phase. Unfortunately, that blissful time when all - or at least most - is perfect inevitably comes to an end. What happens after cementing...
PRIMARY COLORS
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amPatent leather pump, $395, at Sergio Rossi, 694 Fifth Ave.
'O.C.' POPS
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amWHEN Death Cab For Cutie-loving Seth Cohen climbed up on a table and declared his love for Summer Roberts in season one of "The O.C." it wasn't just the moment...
CHICKS' FLICK A GUTSY GAMBLE
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amTHE quickest way to understand the Dixie Chicks' sweep of the Grammys last week is to spend 90 minutes watching "Shut Up & Sing," a documentary that is 10 times...
'PALACE' REVOLT
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amHERE'S a chance to thumb your nose at China's censors. Show up at 6:45 tonight at Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater for "Summer Palace," a film the Communists don't want...
BOTH 'WAYS'
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amMoviegoers who don't immediately recognize Virginia Madsen may imagine that the sexy, glamorous actress arrived, fully formed, at the age of 41 in the huge independent hit "Sideways," for which...
'911' IS A JOKE
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amFor the past three years, the "Cops" parody "Reno 911!" has been a Comedy Central staple. Even if you don't watch it religiously, whenever you do, you know it's a...
TALK SOUP
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amTHE globe is warming up, but that doesn't mean it's not frigid on 42nd Street. But you don't need to suffer, especially during the workweek, when fluorescent lighting and bad...
LEVIN, 27, AND KARTIN, 24
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amNOV. 12 - On New Year's Eve 2004, Aryeh Levin took Rebecca Kartin on a trip down memory lane. The Manhattanites drove by the sites of a year's worth of...
SCHISSLER, 27, AND RUDERMAN, 28
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amNOV. 19 - For Michael Ruderman, the traditional hora was anything but celebratory. "Michael fell right off the chair," says Lauren Schissler, a product development manager at Garan Inc., of...
HEARON, 32, AND TUCKER, 28
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amNOV. 18 - Three years after Crista Hearon and Brian Tucker met while working at the same company, "We started going on what we lovingly refer to as 'pseudo dates,'...
FEINSMITH, 27, AND GRODIN, 28
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amJAN. 14 - What we think are just coincidences in life often turn out to have more meaning. Manhattan residents Alyssa Feinsmith and Matthew Grodin attended neighboring colleges in upstate...
REILLY, 30, AND THOMPSON, 31
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amJAN. 6 - When your social life gets in the way of must-watch TV, there's always TiVo - except when you actually work for the show. Donna Reilly, a stage...
SOROS' LATEST SLUR
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amGeorge Soros is at it again. The Democrats' favorite financial fat-cat clearly isn't feeling comfortable unless he's comparing the United States to Nazi Germany. He just did it again, telling...
CLASS-WAR BIGOTS
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amSuppose you have the means to send your children to private rather than public school, saving the taxpayers about $16,000 each year in education costs. Because you work hard, earn...
THE RIGHT RECORD
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amNOT since Teddy Roosevelt took on Tammany Hall a century ago has a New York politician closely linked to urban reform looked like presidential timber. But today, ex-New York mayor...
SILLY SEASON IN SWING
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amTWO Democratic presidential candidates with national campaign experience are stumbling. A Republican candidate who has run only municipal campaigns is confounding expectations, calling into question some assumptions about Republican voters....
BORJA'S DEATH UP CLOSE: PUBLICITY AND PAYOUTS
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amTHE ISSUE: The alleged link between Cesar Borja's death and post-9/11 air. If you wonder how urban myths get started, all you have to do is look at the unfortunate...
N. KOREA: NUTS OVER NUKES
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amTHE ISSUE: North Korea's announced agreement to end its nuclear program. Before we get our shorts bunched up over the proposed deal with the nutty North Koreans, let's take a...
NAP ON IT, DR. MIKE
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amNow that the paramedic side of Mayor Bloomberg has given us the commandments of health to follow, such as no smoking, no trans fats and swallow a baby aspirin every...
KOWTOWING TO TERROR
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amEditor's note: The latest controversy stirred up by English novelist Martin Amis is his essay, "The Age of Horrorism," which chides liberals for seeking rational explanations for al Qaeda terror....
LEFTIST JEWS' HATEFUL OBSESSION
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amTOO many writers and pundits today are obsessed, almost pathologically, by the conviction that Israel is the most evil country that ever has existed, and that its removal from the...
CARTOON NET. PRANKSTER SPEAKS OUT
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amThe mastermind behind the Cartoon Network guerrilla-marketing campaign that bombed - sending Boston into hours of panic over a feared terrorist plot to blow up bridges and tunnels - said...
WORLDS @ WAR
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amA war between old and new media has begun. After peaceably co-existing for years, the analog and digital media worlds have swapped the first salvos over content in what could...
PHISHING FOR FOOLS
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amPhishing - the practice of luring unsuspecting Internet users to input personal info on illegitimate Web sites - has evolved and gotten much more sophisticated, a veteran technology security executive...
DECLINING DOLLAR IS A TIME BOMB - BUT HOW BIG?
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amDear John: Ben Bernanke has a time bomb on his hands. The U.S. economy is only going to get weaker and he won't be able to cut interest rates because...
DREADED SURPRISE
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amJean Broom, a 61-year-old human resources executive, had planned on working a few more years before retiring. But those plans were hijacked last year when a visit to the doctor...
CAT GENIE LITTERS NEW YORK
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amAt $329 - more than the cost of four unlimited-ride monthly MetroCards - you'd think New Yorkers would think twice about buying one of those newfangled Cat Genie automatic flushing...
SCHWARZMAN FEST COULD BODE ILL
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amWhy does the spectacle of a grown man spending millions of dollars to celebrate a birthday illicit so many snickers? Such was the case last week when Blackstone buyout boss...
MAGS' CIRC SAGS
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amThe magazine publishing world was abuzz last week as the latest circulation numbers showed continued weakness - meaning more editors are surely on the hot seat. Magazines - like television...
TASTY TREAT
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amCatherine Zeta-Jones will don a gown, walk the red carpet, smile for the paparazzi and play the role of a presenter at an awards showlater this month. The Oscars? Not...
CHINESE NEW YEAR TURNS LAS VEGAS GREEN
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amLAS VEGAS - Every January or February there is a surge in action on the baccarat tables and the Las Vegas Strip turns a festive red, decorated with dragons and...
COUNT WEINSTEIN
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amHARVEY Weinstein is about to become neighbors with Big Bird and Elmo. Genius Products, the home-video distribution unit controlled by The Weinstein Company, is expected to announce this week a...
THIS WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amWINNERSCARL ICAHN Activist investor scores again as his rabblerousing at Time Warner earns him a tidy $880M profit.BRADY DOUGAN American at Credit Suisse boosted to CEO - the first Yank...
BILL TO LET POST-9/11 WORKERS SUE CITY
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amMayor Bloomberg wants to bar sick Ground Zero workers from suing the city - but Reps. Jerry Nadler and Carolyn Maloney say they will push bills to allow people the...
MOBSTER CASHES IN HIS CHIPS
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amThis time he really did draw dead. Reputed Bonanno mobster Louis Mele died late last month - while playing a hand of Texas hold 'em, federal prosecutors have revealed. "He...
THRILLS & CHILLS
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amThe weather outside is once again frightful. The Big Apple is set to get another shot of icy temperatures today, according to the National Weather Service, which predicted a cloudy,...
BODY STAYS TUNED IN FOR A YEAR
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amAfter the discovery of the mummified body of an elderly man who died a year ago while watching television, Long Island officials are even more stunned to learn the TV...
MOM'S BUMP IN THE ROAD
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amA woman crossing an Upper East Side street was hit by a livery cab yesterday afternoon. The woman, shopping with her husband and young son, was crossing East 79th Street...
IT'S LONELY ROAD FOR THIS BUS KID
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amWhile many city students were left begging for yellow-bus service after last month's route overhaul, fourth-grader Emmett Sher has been getting his own private bus to take him to school...
TEEN HELD IN SLAY OF MA'S BEAU
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amA 17-year-old boy was arrested last night after the stabbing death of his mom's boyfriend at his Brooklyn apartment, authorities said. Willie "Ted" Telenaque, who works as barber in Manhattan...
SHOT COP'S AGONY
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amThe cop who was shot, allegedly by the thug husband of a fellow police officer, told The Post that he was in physical agony but that the support of his...
KNIFE-SLAY MANIAC DIES IN HOSP
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amA knife-waving murder suspect shot by cops in a wild standoff on the Upper East Side last September has died. Authorities said Joel Noonan, 36, died Friday afternoon of cardiopulmonary...
CITY HOSPS WILL BE PAY PALS FOR POOR
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amPoor New Yorkers will be entitled to free or low-cost medical treatment, under new rules meant to prevent hospitals from denying care to the uninsured. The state Health Department told...
HONORING OUR TRAGIC GIRL'S BEAUTIFUL LIFE
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amCatherine Woods came to New York from Columbus, Ohio, to become a dancer and ended up dying at the hands of Paul Cortez, a personal trainer who murdered her in...
SQUEALS OVER NO. 7 SHUTDOWN
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amFrustrated straphangers and fuming elected officials angrily criticized the city for shutting down a large portion of the No. 7 subway line - causing disruptions that began yesterday and are...
RICE TELLS ABBAS TO HALT TERROR
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amJERUSALEM - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Jerusalem yesterday for a summit with Israeli and Palestinian leaders aimed at rejuvenating flagging Middle East peace talks. At a press...
SPICE GIRLS REUNION DUE
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amSix years after they split up, Britain's most famous all-female band, the Spice Girls, is ready to reunite onstage. But the girl-power reunion will happen on one condition - a...
HEAD-CASE STAR A STUBBLEMAKER
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amBritney Spears transformed herself into a bald bimbo at a suburban Southern California beauty parlor Friday, when she stunned onlookers by grabbing electric clippers and shearing off all her hair....
'CLOSED' CALL ON PREZ DAY
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amTomorrow is Presidents Day. Financial markets, banks, government offices and public schools will be closed, and there is no regular mail delivery. Alternate-side parking rules are suspended, garbage and recycling...
SHAKY GROUND
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amThousands of fuming JetBlue passengers were grounded this weekend as the struggling airline canceled 25 percent of its flights in an effort to tame the snowballing chaos that erupted after...
MULTIPLE-MARRYING RUDY LOOKS TO DUCK A 'THIRD WIFE' CLUBBING
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amRepublican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani's detractors are raising the specter of his "woman problems" - past marriages and a messy public breakup - as he's launching his campaign. While the...
IRAQ DOVES GET SHOT DOWN
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amWASHINGTON - The Senate gridlocked on the Iraq war in a sharply worded showdown yesterday as Republicans foiled a Democratic attempt to rebuke President Bush over his deployment of 21,500...
HILL OFFERS A 'GET THE HELL OUT NOW' BILL
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amDOVER, N.H. - Under fire over Iraq, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton went on offense yesterday, with a bill to start pulling out troops - and a clear sign that those...
MARINE SENTENCED IN KIDNAPPING
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amCAMP PENDLETON, Calif. - A Marine who said he never fired a shot in the kidnapping and murder of an Iraqi man was sentenced yesterday to eight years in military...
JASON'S A 'PLAYER' IN VEGAS
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amLAS VEGAS - After his estranged wife accused him of bedding babes around the country, benched Nets star Jason Kidd partied at the Playboy club in Las Vegas, sources have...
I DID CPR AND I MADE PLEA: ANNA COME BACK
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amIn his first interview since Anna Nicole Smith's death, the bodyguard who tried to revive her in her hotel room says Smith was so incredibly depressed that he feared if...
FOXY SPIT 'VIC': I'VE HIT PAYDIRT
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amPEMBROKE PINES, Fla. - A Florida beauty-shop owner who was the alleged victim of a spit-spewing tirade by fireball rap queen Foxy Brown says he plans to cash in on...
THE 'BROKE'-UP
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amTo explain why the Pirros are selling off their high-priced homes, friends say it's all about the Benjamins, not a breakup. Former DA Jeanine Pirro and her philandering lawyer husband...
VIEWERS' TURN AT 'IDOL' MAKING
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amNow it's the fans' turn to take control of "American Idol." Paula, Randy and Simon have had their say selecting the 24 semifinalists for Season 6. But starting Thursday until...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amMANHATTAN An NYPD captain busted for punching his cop girlfriend two months ago has been collared again - this time for a previously unreported attack on the woman, authorities said....
IT'S BRADY BABY FOR 'SIXY' STAR
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amBRIDGET Moynahan, the star of ABC's "Six Degrees," is expecting and the father is New England Patriot All-Pro quarterback Tom Brady, although the couple is no longer together. Moynahan, 36,...
LOTTERY RESULTS
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amNEW YORK Midday Nos. Sat.: 665; Lucky Sum: 17 / Midday Win-4 Sat.: 1500; Lucky Sum: 6 / Evening Nos. Sat.: 951; Lucky Sum: 15 / Evening Win-4 Sat.: 0286;...
ROBIN JOINING FORDHAM HALL
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amGuard Bevon Robin and former baseball coach Dan Gallagher will head the nine inductees entering the Fordham Athletics Hall of Fame in ceremonies preceding today's game vs. Duquesne. The Class...
PAULIE A WINNER
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amAfter going 12 brutal rounds against world champion Miguel Cotto last June, Brooklyn's Paulie Malignaggi was in need of a confidence-building performance. He authored just that last night, winning a...
LINCOLN REPEATS AS B'KLYN CHAMP
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amLike everyone else, Darwin Ellis was looking at Lance Stephenson in the final seconds of yesterday's game. Unlike the spectators, who expected Stephenson to take a shot to try and...
TAKING TOUCHY TIKI TO TASK
February 18, 2007 | 10:00am* Is Tiki Barber kidding with his latest criticism of Tom Coughlin? Pat Reichart's story ["Quittin' Tom," The Post and nypost.com, Feb. 14] has Tiki saying: "There'd be days where...
SPORTS SHORTS
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amGOLF: Mickelson stumbles, takes lead In Los Angeles, despite three bogeys on the back nine, Phil Mickelson got up-and-down for birdie on the par-5 17th and shot 2-under 69 at...
THE DEFENSE RESTS
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amPROVIDENCE, R.I. - Perhaps, there's been some misunderstanding. Perhaps St. John's thought it had clinched a Big East Conference tournament berth with Thursday's win over Rutgers. Perhaps the Red Storm...
NATE SEES GREEN
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amLAS VEGAS - Defending Slam-Dunk champion Nate Robinson crapped out in Vegas last night. The Celtic high-flyer Gerald Green - literally - leapt over the 5-foot-7½ Robinson and a table...
RISQUE TALK IN VEGAS
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amLAS VEGAS - Only in Vegas. According to a flier being handed out inside the Paris Hotel late Friday night, Vince Carter was hosting a Celebrity All-Star Kickoff Party at...
LESTER INSPIRES RED SOX
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amFT. MYERS, Fla. - Inspira tion comes in many ways. Jon Lester is back on the mound again throwing a baseball. His Red Sox teammates are inspired by the young...
COACHES TRYING OUT JAPANESE
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amFT. MYERS, Fla. - New Red Sox pitching coach John Farrell is impressive talking about pitching and is doing everything he can to make sure games aren't lost in translation...
DAYTONA DUO
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amIn a week filled with controversy and suspensions, Robert Yates and his racing team found some redemption. David Gilliland took the pole for the Yates' team at the Daytona 500,...
HOOK, LINE & SINKER
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amTAMPA - An AL East executive recently sized up his league by stating no fewer than 10 of the 14 teams are legitimate playoff contenders. Of the four remaining clubs,...
LITTLE EXPERIENCE NECESSARY TO PLAY CF IN NL CENTRAL
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amThe central plot in the NL Central involves center field. Half of the six teams are taking players who are middle infielders by training and turning them into center fielders....
FACES CHANGE, BUT PRE-GAME SHOWS DON'T
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amBIG news, late last week. Tiki Barber was hired for NBC's NFL pre- game show, Bill Cowher for CBS's. Yep, big news. But outside of the media, who really cares?...
ESPNBOOTS IRVIN
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amFootball analyst Michael Irvin is out at ESPN. "He will not be returning to ESPN, and we thank him for his contributions and wish him the best," ABC/ESPN spokesman Josh...
THE RUMBLE
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amTEAMMATE MIENTKIEWICZ NOW A WELCOME SEMINOLE Doug Mientkiewicz went to high school in Miami and lives in Coral Gables, where the University of Miami is located. However, it took becoming...
NO REST FOR WEARE
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amWhen Brenda Weare was appointed commissioner of the Northeast Conference in August, there were so many things she wanted to do. Football season was near. She wanted to experience autumn...
PAINFUL MEMORY
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amTUCSON, Ariz. - Randy Johnson greeted the Arizona media with a smile yesterday. The good feelings did not extend to the New York media. The big left-hander threw some heat...
NJSEA: NEWARK ARENA LONG WAY OFF
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amThe head of the Meadowlands doesn't know how the Devils can do it, nor what they'll do about it. "I know construction, and I don't think there's any way that...
DEVILS, BRODEUR BLANK ISLES
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amIt was the Devils' emphatic answer to several doubts at once. They atoned for joining the rest of the league in losing to the Penguins a night earlier, and Martin...
NOT EXACTLY FREE
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amWith the NFL's free-agent signing period looming in two weeks, the Jets will find themselves salivating over potential upgrades at positions of need. Question is, how much will they be...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q&A WITH...
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amThe Post's Steve Serby chatted with the lefty closer about the Mets' chances in 2007, his family, future and much more: Q: What are the chances of a Subway Series...
MAKES YA FEEL OLD
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - There are obvious down sides to being a rabid sports fan, of course. Mets fans still wake up in a cold sweat, screeching "Swing the bat,...
RIGHT-HANDMAINE
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - There is no avoiding the 8,000-pound elephant roaming freely inside the Mets' clubhouse at Tradition Field, certainly not now, with the room overrun with pitchers, with...
WIL AND A WAY
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Fred Wilpon's desire is not just for the Mets to go far this year but for them to go far by playing "the Mets way." The...
WILLIE SEES NO NEED FOR A CAPTAIN
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Willie Randolph believes the Mets are better off without a captain. The Mets manager, who is a former Yankees co-captain, has not had a captain for...
CALIFORNIA KIDD
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amLAS VEGAS - Cheerless to say, yet indisputably reasonable, in all likelihood, we've seen the last of Jason Kidd in a Nets uniform. On the other hand, I suspect he...
CRASH LANDING
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amThis was more than a disappointing defeat at the Garden. This was a calamitous afternoon for the Rangers. It was bad enough within context for the 11th-place Blueshirts to have...
SATHER SHOULD RETIRE DEADLINE TRAVEL PLANS
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amTHIS is a wireless world in which one remains connected at all times from all parts of the world, including Edmonton, Alberta. So maybe it doesn't matter that Glen Sather,...
YANKS A LOT
February 18, 2007 | 10:00am* Why would GM Brian Cashman and the Yankees wait until the end of the year to re-sign Mariano Rivera? To get in a bidding war and spend even more...
GUIDRY 'KEEPING AN EYE ON' UNPROVEN IGAWA, PAVANO
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amTAMPA - He knows what to expect from Chien-Ming Wang, Mike Mussina and Andy Pettitte. That's not the case with Kei Igawa and Carl Pavano. In that sense Ron Guidry...
SILENT ALARM
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amTAMPA - With position players reporting to Legends Field today, Bernie Williams isn't expected to join the Yankees' camp. According to GM Brian Cashman, there was no contact between the...
MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amTAMPA - The most important person - not just player - in the Yankees organization was born 11 days before the Olsen twins. He wears a number, 65, more associated...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amA suburban-Detroit man was sentenced to six months' probation for putting a boa constrictor in his mailbox to scare his letter carrier. James Rutherford Mell was charged with obstructing the...
DATING TREND: WHERE SPORTY SINGLES MEET
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amFinally, sports fans can express their love for a team and find someone special-by mingling at stadiums. But if you build this kind of event, will women come? Granted, meeting...
FATAL ATTRACTION
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amWHEN a girl says "any guy who doesn't try to score coke while we're on a date is pretty decent," chances are only the most ill-mannered guys are going to...
MEET MARKET
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amJUST because Charles, a 37-year-old consultant, comes off as an articulate businessman, but really feels more like a "rocker in blue jeans and a T-shirt," doesn't mean he's looking for...