March 17, 2007
Carolina Ups the Ante
It seems the Rangers' good luck in the standings may be running out. Today, Carolina tallied a decisive victory over the Devils. The Hurricanes made New Jersey look more like...
Hoops, books, music and cops
David Wright would've gone to Georgia Tech if he hadn't been drafted by the Mets. But with the Yellow Jackets bounced by UNLV on Friday, I asked the Norfolk, Va.,...
Day 36: Rivera and Wagner
Today I want to throw a shout out to the New York closers, Billy Wagner and, especially, Mariano Rivera. As I read spring-training coverage, one item I notice is how...
Walken Tall
Jeremiah Kipp at Matt Zoller Seitz' excellent movie blog The House Next Door has a highly readable survey of the greatest film performances by my fellow Astoria (Queens) native, Christopher...
Early Box Office Report
It didn't quite fall off a cliff, but "300'' did drop 64 percent from its opening day on Friday. That's at least partly because the opening-day figures included sold-out midnight...
Green, Black and Tan
In honor of St. Patrick's Day, here's a clip of the famous kissing scene from John Ford's Ireland-filmed "The Quiet Man,'' starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara. Even people who...
It may be over
By MARC BERMANNot to spoil everyone's St. Paddy's Day with this blog, but the Knicks already did. Isiah Thomas spun every post-game question last night back to the free-throw disparity....
WALSH SLAMS PERV DELAY
'AMERICA'S Most Wanted" host John Walsh is claiming the sex-offender law named after his murdered son is full of loopholes and not "tough enough." In an unusual editorial posted yesterday...
THE FALL OF 'ROME'
IT was an epic series with epic flaws. And now you can add epic hilarity to the list. In years to come, HBO's "Rome" might emerge as a costume-party favorite,...
'JEOPARDY' TRIPLE PLAY
THE impossible happened last night on "Jeopardy!" For the first time in the quiz show's 23-year history, the game ended in a three-way tie (see photo, right) - defying odds...
WHAT'S UP
TodayGOODY POINTE SHOES: Dancing animals are great, but for some kids, goody bags are better. They'll get both at New York Theatre Ballet's productions of "Carnival of the Animals" and...
SPRING AHEAD
A picture is worth a thousand words - especially when you're learning to read. And now, just in time for a (soggy) start of spring, comes a flood of bright...
A HORROR FLICK FOR DUMMIES
'SOME people believe the dummy brings death to those around them." Bad news for Paris Hilton's friends, but it's the kind of legend that will make the killer-doll movie "Dead...
WELCOME TO COOKLYN
EVER since The Grocery, a tiny 30-seat eatery in Carroll Gardens, topped the Zagat charts in 2004, Manhattanites have taken notice of the borough's growing restaurant scene. This week, there...
LAW GIVES NARROW OK TO SHOOT IF 'NECESSARY'
At the heart of a grand jury's decision yesterday to indict three police officers in the shooting death of Sean Bell is the state penal code's wording on the use...
3 COPS HIT BY '50 SHOT' RAP
Three NYPD cops were indicted yesterday for firing 46 of 50 shots at three unarmed men in a car on a Queens street last year - wounding two and killing...
BRUNO FURY OVER LONG DIVISION
ALBANY - Embattled state Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno and the head of the state Republican Party fired back at Conservative Leader Michael Long yesterday, saying he's wrong to prefer...
'1-WAY' SHOT IS BLOCKED
A controversial city plan to turn Sixth and Seventh avenues in Park Slope into one-way streets leading to and from the future Brooklyn home of the NBA's Nets appears dead....
HOSP UNION MAKES DEM 'HOUSE CALLS'
ALBANY - The health-care workers union has escalated its war against Gov. Spitzer's proposed health-care cuts by targeting individual Assembly Democrats in their home districts, The Post has learned. Representatives...
SPITZ 'AD'VERSARY SPENDS QUICK $4M
The city's private hospitals and health-care workers union spent $4.5 million on ads last month to beat back Gov. Spitzer's proposed Medicaid cuts, it was revealed yesterday. "I put my...
MIKE'S ON MARCH WITH FIRE HEROES
After being unceremoniously moved back in the line of march, the FDNY will pick up some extra support from Mayor Bloomberg during today's St. Patrick's Day Parade. "I usually march...
ICY PARTING SHOT
You thought it was over but, no, winter is back for what should be one last gloppy visit. Airlines canceled more than 1,000 flights in and out of the area's...
40-YEAR POWER TRIP FOR PARADE BOSS
John Dunleavy, a former bus driver who runs the St. Patrick's Day Parade with an iron fist, has been playing a key role in the march for 40 years. And...
KIN'S DAYS OF ANGUISH
As his mother wept uncontrollably, a steady line of blue paid their respects last night to an auxiliary cop cut down in the prime of life by a madman. "This...
KILLER'S HEART OF DARKNESS
A chilling picture of David Garvin, the maniac who snuffed out the lives of three people before dying in a hail of police bullets, shows the ex-Marine ghoulishly dressed all...
MIKE CALLS ON PELOSI TO END GUN 'CRAZINESS'
The shooting deaths of two auxiliary cops must spur the Democratic-controlled Congress to pass tougher gun legislation, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday. He also called House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Thursday to...
DAD FLYING TRAGIC KIN TO AFRICAN HOMELAND
A mother and four children killed in a Bronx fire that left 10 people dead began their final trip home last night. Mamadou Soumare's Air France flight to Mali, via...
KIDDIE-PORN SICKO TRIES BOOZY EXCUSE
A Hamptons real-estate agent from Germany who was caught with a huge stash of kiddie porn told cops he couldn't resist looking at the disgusting images of child torture because...
BREAK IN THE CASE AGAINST FBI ROGUE
A former detective who worked as a consultant to the Brooklyn DA on the murder indictments of a rogue FBI agent was himself cleared of killing a man by a...
HOSPITAL TB TESTING BEGINS
Twenty-five former patients who may have been exposed to killer tuberculosis by an infected nurse at St. Barnabas Hospital sought tests for TB yesterday . Ten were tested and 15...
COCAINE RAP FOR GAL COP
A city cop got caught with her drawers down, after a large stash of drugs was allegedly found hidden among her lingerie in the Long Island home she shares with...
KNOCK-AND-KILL HARLEM SHOOTING
A Harlem man was killed yesterday after he opened his apartment door and a gunman blasted him. The 55-year-old victim, whose name is being withheld pending notification, answered a knock...
PIANO 'PERV' IN 2ND BUST
Here's one encore a Long Island piano teacher should not have performed. Nicholas Panos, 74, of Port Washington, who's already accused of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old student, has been arrested...
DNA DATE FOR ANNA 'DAD' DUO
NASSAU, Bahamas - The judge in the Anna Nicole Smith paternity dispute has ordered that the two men arguing over fathering the former Playboy Playmate's 6-month-old daughter undergo DNA testing...
HURT RANGER TELLS DA: LET THUG SKATE
ATLANTA - Ryan Hollweg, the New York Ranger forward bashed in the face with a two-handed stick swing by the New York Islanders' Chris Simon nine days ago, has told...
EVERY PARENT'S NIGHTMARE EYED
Federal officials yesterday warned the nation's cops to be on the lookout for a new danger - terrorist school-bus drivers. Suspected members of extremist groups have signed up to drive...
PLAME PLAYS 'I, SPY'
WASHINGTON - Ex-CIA employee Valerie Plame portrayed herself yesterday as a covert super-spy in congressional testimony - even though her former boss has said her friends and neighbors knew what...
TO YOUR HEALTH, REEGE!
Regis Philbin's pals at "Live! With Regis & Kelly" have been swamped with cards from fans wishing him a speedy recovery from heart surgery, but the biggest one so far...
ARMY CHAPLAIN'S 'SEX SLAVE'
A brazen upstate Army chaplain made a British woman his sex toy to "spice" up his boring marriage and threatened to kill her when she wanted to break away, officials...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
The Bronx* Cops are asking for the public's help to identify this man (pictured) who tried to abduct three teen girls in University Heights, authorities said. The creep grabbed a...
HEY, MIKE, DON'T LET US LOSE THESE FINEST, TOO
AN open letter to Mayor Bloomberg: Dear Mr. Mayor, I believe you are a great mayor - apart from the fact that you want cops and firefighters to live on...
PANEL FAILS TO BLOW REAL CULPRITS' COVER
YESTERDAY there was a hearing in the House of Representatives into the 2003 leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's name to columnist Robert Novak. Current and former White House officials...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Fri.: 961; Lucky Sum: 16 / Midday Win-4 Fri.: 3897; Lucky Sum: 27 / Evening Nos. Fri.: 816; Lucky Sum: 15 / Evening Win-4 Fri.: 5115;...
VIVA DUBYA
To hear the mainstream news media describe it, fully half the citizens of Latin America turned out to trash President Bush during his recent five-nation trip to the region. "Often-violent...
THE BELL INDICTMENTS
You can dress up Al Sharpton in $2,000 suits and take him off to high-life hotspots like Nello's, but at the end of the day he's still Al Sharpton -...
IRAN TO U.N.: DROP DEAD
ON Wednesday, just hours before the five permanent members of the United Nations' Security Council and Germany reached agreement on new sanctions against the Islamic Republic, the Khomeinist leadership came...
OBAMA: THE PERILS OF CHARM
I AM in the fourth or fifth stage of working through my feelings about Barack Obama. In the beginning, I was exhilarated by the appearance of somebody to challenge, and...
THE GLOBAL-WARMING SCAM
BRITAIN'S Channel 4 has produced a devastating documentary titled "The Great Global Warming Swindle." It has apparently not been broadcast by any U.S. networks, but is available on the Web....
BUSH'S BUNGLERS
'WHAT do I need to do? What can we do to end this?" That was Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' plaint a couple of weeks ago as the controversy about the...
HILLARY'S REUNION WITH VICIOUS SID
SEN. Hillary Rodham Clinton raised eyebrows among Democratic insiders when The Washington Post's Al Kamen reported that she dined last week at the 701 restaurant in downtown Washington with former...
EVEN LUCK OF THE IRISH COULDN'T HELP THE FNDY
THE ISSUE: This year's St. Patrick's Day Parade lineup, with the FDNY moved from the front. I find it appalling the way our Bravest are being treated by the St....
STANDING UP FOR SUPER-GRANNIES
THE ISSUE: The recent mugging of two women, ages 101 and 85, in Queens. Please let the elderly lady, who cannot attend church because the creep that mugged her is...
STRUNG-OUT UNION
Stop attacking the puppeteers ("Hanging Loose," March 15). They've been putting on shows in the five boroughs for 50 years - performing in schools, hospitals, senior citizen centers, community centers,...
STEVE'S NO. 2?
Stephen Schwarzman, the stoic head of private equity powerhouse The Blackstone Group, could soon topple Carl Icahn to be New York's second richest man. With the value of his soon-to-be...
PICTURES WORTH MILLIONS FOR CONRAD
CHICAGO - While Conrad Black enjoyed a day off yesterday, lawyers involved in his fraud trial spent the morning nitpicking with a judge over what graphics they could show the...
PUBLIC PROFIT$
The Blackstone Group, the secretive investment firm run by billionaire financier Stephen Schwarzman, is in the final stages of preparing a public offering that could lead to a wave of...
TRUMP GETS FRIENDLY DEAL
Vornado Realty Trust has reached a pact to pay $1.8 billion to buy out Donald J. Trump's estranged Chinese partners in two prominent office buildings. The two towers, 1290 Avenue...
WARNER'S U.K. HEAD QUITS
Warner Music Group, grappling with an international music market as volatile as the domestic one, announced yesterday that Nick Phillips was stepping down from his post as chairman of its...
NYRA CHIEF TAKES JOB IN HONG KONG
Nobody would ever call Bill Nader, outgoing chief operating officer of the New York Racing Association, a rat - after all, he received the "Good Guy" award from the N.Y....
SPORTS SHORTS
NBA: Kobe scores 65Kobe Bryant scored 24 of his 65 points in the fourth quarter and added nine more in overtime last night as the Lakers snapped a seven-game losing...
AGGIES VICTORY IN THE CARDS
MARCH MADNESSEACH day during the NCAA tournament, hoop maven Tim Sullivan, the Post's two-time defending Saturday's Heroes champion, will offer his plays of the day: Texas A&M (-2 1/2) over...
HOYAS MUST STAND TALL FOR BIG EAST
WINSTON-SALEM - This came hours before Winthrop spanked Notre Dame on Ain't Patrick's Day. Boston College's Jared Dudley, ACC Player of the Year, kicked the Big East while it is...
SPARTANS HOPING TO JOIN ELITE
WINSTON-SALEM - It is a breathtakingly impressive tradition of success - 20 NCAA Tournament appearances including 10 straight; six Final Four finishes, two NCAA championships. Yet it pales in comparison...
MR. MARCH
LEXINGTON, Ky. - If it's March and the NCAA Tournament is in session it's Pitino Time. Rick Pitino, the Louisville coach who'll lead his sixth-seeded Cardinals into today's 3:40 p.m....
VCU RIDING A CHAIN REACTION
BUFFALO, N.Y. - See, this is what's so cool about college basketball. You get beyond the glitter, beyond the glamour, beyond the TV lights. You get beneath the posing, and...
TOP CATS? KY.
WEST REGION CHICAGO - Villanova came here looking to stay around for a while, hoping a senior class that produced so much winning had a reservoir of success stored up...
TAYLOR RESCUES BADGERS
MIDWEST REGION CHICAGO - Like his team, Kammron Taylor has had better halves than the one he endured yesterday at the United Center. Actually, Taylor has rarely, if ever, been...
SENIOR POSITION
MIDWEST CHICAGO - When it came down to winning time yesterday, experienced UNLV came down the stretch staring squarely at Georgia Tech's talent. Youth blinked, which is why the Runnin'...
BATTERED DEVS BATTLE THROUGH PAIN
They were heroic in winning without three of their top stars. Still, the nature and number of those injuries cast a deep shadow on the Devils' chances in the postseason....
GARDEN OF GLOOM
Stephon Marbury missed on a runner in the lane. Channing Frye missed an open 19-footer. Steve Francis missed a desperation 3-pointer. When that frantic final possession ended, an eerie feeling...
STEVIE SCAPEGOAT
Steve Francis said he's used to being made the scapegoat and said he believes he's being made one here. "You want to be able to step up and take responsibility...
HEILMAN 'SUPERB' IN RETURN TO THE MOUND
JUPITER, Fla. - Aaron Heilman hadn't pitched since March 9 due to elbow tendinitis, but his return was pretty much perfect. Heilman mowed down the Marlins in order in the...
BACK IN THE SWING
JUPITER, Fla. - Shawn Green found a hitch in his swing this winter, which was a topic of much conversation last month. The assumption was it would be fixed quickly....
NETS TRY KEEPING THE FAITH
The Nets aren't into moral victories, aren't satisfied with Thursday's bruising 93-86 loss to Miami. But they learned a lot more in defeat than they did in the two high-scoring...
BLUESHIRTS LET ONE GET AWAY
ATLANTA -- If hard work is supposed to be rewarded, then bless the Rangers. Someday they will be in heaven thanks to all the pucks they fired over, around, and...
BERNIE BAWL
KISSIMMEE, Fla. - Bernie Williams' storied Yankees career is over. Nothing is official, but by opting to stay in Westchester instead of accepting an offer to make the club in...
ABREU'S AIMIN' FOR OPENER
KISSIMMEE, Fla. - So far so good on the topic of Bobby Abreu's strained oblique muscle. "I tried to push it more and it was fine," Abreu said after taking...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A matador is the luckiest man in Spain after a bull gored him in the groin. Bullfighting fans were shocked when doctors released a statement saying that matador Fernando Cruz...
(Almost) Everything Goes Rangers' Way
Toronto lost. Montreal lost. Two good results for a Rangers squad looking for a playoff berth ... but one integral piece of the puzzle tonight refused to fall into place:...