March 29, 2007
Best Bets for Weekend
March 29, 2007 | 11:49pmNobody asked me, but here are five tips for weekend movie watching:1. "Color Me Kubrick,'' with an over-the-top John Malkovitch as an infamous Stanley Kubrick imposter who fooled most of...
One nerd to rule them all
March 29, 2007 | 9:28pmRing. One RING to rule them all. Sorry. Turbine, Inc. is inviting over a million players to join the MMOG "The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar" fun....
Veggie violence
March 29, 2007 | 9:11pmCourtesy of the folks behind the upcoming "Dark Sector" game...With sound effects like these, how can a game go wrong?
"DiRT" trailer online now
March 29, 2007 | 8:56pmWOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!If the Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel is compatible with this game, I am TOTALLY going to get one.Expect it for the Xbox 360 and PC in June, with...
So...the Xbox 360 Elite
March 29, 2007 | 7:40pmIf you haven't heard about the Xbox 360 Elite by now, where the hell have you been? Kidding!Microsoft has officially announced what punters on the Information Super Highway have been...
Newhan and Milledge
March 29, 2007 | 6:49pmBy MARK HALEDavid Newhan just clobbered another homer, so he now has two today. Meanwhile, Lastings Milledge just had his first at-bat since Sunday, and he struck out on four...
Delgado
March 29, 2007 | 6:39pmBy MARK HALECarlos Delgado is back in camp today, and he was set to play in a minor league game at Tradition Field. Delgado was away in Puerto Rico since...
CRUISES: NCL goes next-gen
March 29, 2007 | 6:13pmNow, complete with things to throw at the walls. Can you really turn gamers into cruisers? (Or is it cruisers in to gamers?) Either way, Nintendo and Norwegian aim to...
Good German, Boring Kazakh
March 29, 2007 | 5:13pmI'd personally prefer if he were playing a bad Nazi, but it turns out Tom Cruise will be portraying the man who led the "July Plot'' to assasinate Hitler in...
SPRING FLING
March 29, 2007 | 5:06pmSo, as I was saying, I stop in the Desert Inn, a place Iâve passed 20 times throughout the years on my way to and from Tampa, located in the...
Deal of the Day
March 29, 2007 | 3:48pmAny riff on a plain old man's shirt is a good thing.Enter this white voile belted Pullover Shirttail top from Fei that's been marked down at Anthropologie from $118 to...
Day 48: Which New York Team Will Win More?
March 29, 2007 | 3:16pmWe have been asking you to ponder a New York vs. New York question in this little corner of universe all week and today we really ask you to ponder...
Dunzo at Dior
March 29, 2007 | 12:23pmBritish Vogue is reporting that Dior has severed all ties with Hedi Slimane, who, over the past seven years, single-handledly built the Dior Homme label into a powerhouse of men's...
Scarlett Fever Receding
March 29, 2007 | 10:31amThe Weinsteins have long been notorious for moving release dates like so many chess pieces. While getting ready for next week's opening of Grindhouse, the House of Pain has pushed...
Back to the Future
March 29, 2007 | 9:46am"Toy Story 3'' is being produced in 3-D, claims former Disney exec Jeffrey Katzenberg. Jeff, who famously stormed out of the Mouse House to co-found Dreamworks after producing "The Lion...
OFFSPRING TRAINING
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amNAIA Rebekah Neuman was born Monday at 12:50 p.m. She weighed 6 pounds, 13 ounces. She cooed and smiled, ready to embrace a whole new world, a world filled with...
EGOMANIA!
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amWHAT happens when an immovable object of self-promotion meets an irresistible force of puffery? We'll find out Sunday during Wrestlemania 23, when Donald Trump and WWE honcho Vince McMahon clash...
HOW TO TURN KIDS INTO FANS
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amBEING a loyal and devoted baseball fan for years and years is almost like a religious experience. "It is like a religion," says Kerry Sulkowicz, clinical professor of psychiatry at...
HAUTE LIST
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amLATELY, it doesn't matter whether you spend $30 or $3,000 on a handbag or pair of shoes - like clockwork, by the time you've scrimped and saved enough to make...
MACY COMES UP 'BIG' WITH FUNKY STUFF
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amAFTER years trying to match the success and quality of her 1999 debut, Macy Gray is back on top with a masterpiece of neo-soul aptly titled "Big." At the Gramercy...
STARR REPORT
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amBrown out in L.A.Morning TV, past and present: Former "Early Show" co-anchor Rene Syler visits "Oprah" today to discuss her decision to undergo a bilateral prophylactic mastectomy to prevent breast...
THE VIIITH WONDER
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amSHOWTIME'S glorious, gorgeous "The Tudors" is the best series since "The Sopranos." Period. Yes, I like it. A lot. But it's not just me. When my family was in from...
FAMILY TRAGEDY
March 29, 2007 | 9:00am'RUN'S House," the hit MTV show starring Joseph "Rev.Run" Simmons and his wife, was never about an average family. The former hip-hop star - father of five kids, all in...
'LOST' LOSING REPEATS
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amABC is expected to finally take a page from Fox's hit show, "24" and run "Lost" episodes consecutively next year with no repeats or month-long breaks. "The plan next year...
E'S TRUE H'WOOD STORY
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amWHO wouldn't want Emmanuelle Chriqui to be part of their "Entourage"? Chriqui, 28, plays Sloan, the daughter of top Hollywood mega-agent Terence (Malcolm McDowell), Ari's (Jeremy Piven) former boss/nemesis. She...
HITTING A B NOTE
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amMENTION musicals of Hollywood's Golden Age, and people think of all those Technicolor spectaculars with Garland, Grable, Astaire, Hayworth and Kelly. But Tinseltown in the 1930s and 1940s also ground...
IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amThe moon's eclipse of Saturn on your birthday means you must stay calm no matter how big the challenges that confront you over the coming 12 months. Others can get...
HOSPS BIG WINNERS IN STATE BUDGET WAR
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amALBANY - New details of the tentative state budget deal emerged yesterday - and they were greeted with cheers by the state's financially struggling hospitals. The agreement wipes out the...
DESIGNER SUES
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amSeeing double? Well, Diane von Furstenberg is seeing red. The famed designer thinks cheapie-fashion store Forever 21's $32 "Sabrina" smock dress looks suspiciously similar to her own $325 "Cerisier" design....
BOSS OF 50-SHOT WITNESS ARRESTED
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amThe boss of a Queens janitor who told the Sean Bell grand jury that he saw a man fire at cops was arrested yesterday for telling the witness to clam...
A 'POWERFUL' LESSON FROM 'BRIBE' JUDGE
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amHe'll never quite join the ranks of Machiavelli, but disgraced Brooklyn judge Gerald Garson offered his own lessons on the use of power. "I asked him how powerful he really...
SCAM RAP ROCKS THE BOATHOUSE
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amThe operators of the famed Central Park Boathouse scammed the city by undercounting revenues by $2.4 million, giving away free meals and never reporting money from bike and gondola rentals,...
LAFAYETTE HS PRINCIPAL IS OUT
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amThe embattled principal of Lafayette HS in Brooklyn, whose management of the failing school provoked frequent clashes with students, teachers and alumni, will step down tomorrow to take a new...
CITY MURDER RATE SLASHED
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amThe murder rate has plunged 28 percent so far this year in the Big Apple, leading an overall double-digit decline in serious crime, police statistics show. The 84 murders through...
AXED PLAZA EXEC: ISRAELI 'BIAS' WASN'T KOSHER
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amA former bigwig at the real estate company that bought The Plaza hotel says he got thrown out on his tuchus because he didn't speak Hebrew. In papers filed in...
LADY'S LEG WASHES UP AT DOLAN'S L.I. HOME
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amA human leg inside a plastic bag was found washed up onto a Long Island shoreline - behind the Gold Coast mansion of James Dolan, the president and CEO of...
TAXI HORROR NEAR CENTRAL PK.
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amA woman was clinging to life early today after she was struck by a cab - in front of her horrified daughter - while crossing Central Park West. The 50-year-old...
OFFICER SHOOTS HOSP 'ESCAPEE'
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amA 19-year-old Brooklyn man was shot by a cop in Kings County Hospital yesterday after attacking him in an escape bid, authorities said. The man, who was not identified, broke...
UDDER PAIN WITH MILK SET TO $OAR
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amThere's sour news on the dairy front - milk prices will rise 4 percent Sunday and will get even higher in the coming months, industry experts say. The official state...
RAP FLAP AT 'PRUDE U.'
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amTwo months after banning a campus performance of "The Vagina Monologues" because of its "unsuitable subject matter," St. John's University has opened its doors to a potty-mouthed rapper who's been...
CROSSING GUARD IN '$CAM'
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amA school crossing guard was arrested yesterday for ripping off $36,000 in city housing assistance and food-stamp benefits, authorities said. Sharena Hockaday, 31, of Brooklyn, was charged with welfare fraud...
ENDORSE COURSE FOR HILL, RUDY
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amSen. Hillary Rodham Clinton was endorsed by a major women's group yesterday as rival White House hopeful Rudy Giuliani brought longtime flat-tax proponent Steve Forbes on board. Democrat Clinton pushed...
POL PUSH VS. SCHOOL CHANGES
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amMore than half the City Council yesterday backed a resolution urging the Department of Education to stop its reorganization of the school system. The development was the latest in an...
KELLY FIRES SALVOS IN COP SHOOT
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amNYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly lashed out at the feds yesterday over out-of-state gun sales as a cop shot during a routine pot bust a day earlier was released from the...
WAGERS OF SIN
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amAn ex-cop rolled snake eyes yesterday as authorities charged him with running a $30 million online gambling ring out of a Queens strip club. John "JK" Kinahan, 56, took bets...
MIKE OFFICIALLY CUTS THE FAT
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amThe trans-fat ban is now official. Mayor Bloomberg signed it into law yesterday, insisting the change wouldn't be a great imposition on restaurants. "It's something that doesn't really hurt anybody,"...
'HIT MAN' WIFE, SON BUSTED
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amA Mafia hit man's life on the lam was all in the family, federal prosecutors charged yesterday. The wife and stepson of reputed Genovese crime family gunman Michael "Mikey Cigars"...
STREET BINS FOR RECYCLING
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amThe city's first outdoor recycling bins are being installed next week for a trial run at Staten Island Ferry terminals and five parks, including Union Square. Starting Monday, environmentally conscious...
SECURITY HIKE FOR PASSOVER
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amThe NYPD will increase patrols around synagogues and surrounding neighborhoods during Passover next week, police brass told members of the Jewish community yesterday. New York's Finest will carefully monitor temples,...
BROOKE STAFF'S 'BONUS'
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amThe Brooke Astor employees instrumental in getting her son bounced as her caretaker profited from his departure, court records show. Astor's butler, a nurse and a nurse's aide filed affidavits...
BORAT VS. BORE
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amHe's racist, rude and his stories of his homeland are twisted, but Borat still may be Kazakhstan's best representative. Yesterday, students at St. Francis College in Brooklyn Heights sat through...
SLAY RAPS ON 'DRUG KINGPIN'
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amThe alleged head of a murderous drug and robbery ring has been charged with slaying two rival dealers while stealing their pot stashes - crimes that could land him the...
CHEER AS COP EXITS HOSP
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amThe brave Brooklyn cop stabbed in the brain by a craven criminal two weeks ago left the hospital yesterday and said he was ready to get back to work keeping...
YOUTUBE HORROR
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amAuthorities are searching for a gang of teens who savagely beat a Bronx high-school student in an attack that was videotaped and posted on YouTube. A student at DeWitt Clinton...
'2ND' CHANCE AT LAST
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amThe long-awaited Second Avenue Subway will be born again on April 12. The MTA will kick off construction under East 99th Street in the ill-fated, though still pristine, tunnels dug...
MTA BIG'S PAL TO RUN SUBWAYS
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amMTA Executive Director Elliot Sander has picked his former boss and mentor to run the city's buses and subways, sources said. Howard H. Roberts, 67, who was a vice president...
COP KILLER TO FACE NYPD BLUE
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amA sea of blue will greet cop killer Ronell Wilson in a Brooklyn courtroom today as a federal judge officially sentences him to death. Wilson, 24, was convicted in December...
COP IN 2ND BUST
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amAn NYPD detective charged with raping his girlfriend was busted just hours after making bail when he continued tormenting her over the phone, law-enforcement sources said yesterday. The ink was...
FIRE LIGHTS UP PARK SLOPE SKY
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amTowering flames shoot from the top floor of a Brooklyn commercial building that was left in ruins before dawn yesterday by an electrical fire. The blaze was sparked at about...
FEISTY FOXY FIGHTING FLA. RAP
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amFoxy Brown is not going down without a fight. The rapacious rapper pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges that she tangled with a beauty-store worker in Florida on Feb. 15....
JAILS DEPT. BIASED: SUIT
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amThe city Correction Department discriminates against women who "are over 50 and not of the Jewish faith," two longtime employees charge in a $7 million lawsuit. Francesca Digirolamo, 53, and...
IRANIANS SINK TO A NEW LOW
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amIran declared yesterday that the only way Britain can get back its 15 hostage sailors is if it admits they trespassed into Iranian waters. Tehran's ultimatum came only hours after...
HOW KIDS 'AD' ON POUNDS
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amChildren are getting fat because artichokes, broccoli and cucumbers get less TV advertising than pizza, burgers and sweets, a new study says. More than 70 percent of food advertising is...
BOSS' HEIR IS OUT AT HOME
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amSteve Swindal, heir apparent to the Yankee throne of father-in-law George Steinbrenner, is about to be divorced from the empire. His wife, Steinbrenner's daughter, Jennifer, filed for divorce, citing "irreconcilable...
BUSH RIPS DEMS' DATE WITH DISASTER
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday emphatically condemned the "disastrous" Iraq pullout plans passed by congressional Democrats, and vowed to veto any bill that contains a withdrawal timeline. "Our enemies in...
'IDOL' SOUR NOTE
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amHair he goes again . . . "American Idol" misfit Sanjaya Malakar defied his detractors last night to escape the chop on the top-rated TV talent show. Despite stumbling through...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amMANHATTAN Cops busted a pervert who molested a woman aboard a subway train on the Upper East Side, authorities said yesterday. Darren Robinson, 22, rubbed against the victim's buttocks on...
GOV. STEAMROLLED INTO A BIG SOFTEE
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amALBANY - Gov. Steamroller has become Mister Softee this week as plunging poll numbers, Republican recalcitrance, and the approaching April 1 budget deadline forced Eliot Spitzer to change himself into...
MOM RAGES IN COURTHOUSE CONFRONTATION
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amTHE furious mother whirled into the courthouse, de termined to confront the old man on his way to the bathroom. "Judge Garson!" the attractive woman, 54, cried while climbing into...
IF EATERY IMPROVES, IT MAY BE MEDIOCRE
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amIT'S a good thing I hap pened to skip breakfast yesterday before I had lunch at the Boathouse Cafe. Without an appetite ravenous enough to devour Cleveland, I wouldn't have...
LOTTERY
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amNEW YORK Midday Nos. Wed.: 196 Lucky Sum: 16 / Midday Win-4 Wed.: 2763; Lucky Sum: 18 / Evening Nos. Wed.: 652; Lucky Sum: 13 / Evening Win-4 Wed.: 6500;...
NOTHING'S CHANGED
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amWell, that didn't take long. Eighty-seven days, to be exact. The governor who swept into of fice on a pledge to "change everything" about Albany - most especially its backroom-brokered,...
TIMELINES FOR DEFEAT
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amPresident Bush yesterday got tough with congressional Democrats, vowing to veto any bill that sets a deadline for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq - and promising not to compromise on...
A CONSTABLE'S LOT
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amAnother NYPD officer has been shot - this one on Tuesday evening in Brooklyn, by a seven-times-arrested drug suspect, during a struggle. Happily, Officer Rory Mangra was convalescing in Park...
MEET JOHN DOE
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amEARLIER this month, six pub licity-seeking imams filed a federal lawsuit against US Airways and Minneapolis/St. Paul's Metropolitan Airports Commission. The Muslim clerics were removed from their flight last November...
CALL IT A PRETEND STATE
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amLINCOLN supposedly said: If I call a tail a leg, how many legs does a dog have? Five? No, calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. Which...
A $400B TAX HIKE
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amTHE new Democratic major ity today begins dancing the next phase of the tax- and-spend minuet in the House of Representatives. Following the example of their Senate brethren last Friday,...
TAX & SPEND: WHO WINS
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amFROM property taxes to income taxes, the tax burden for the av erage American household continues to rise. This year, Americans will have to work a full four months before...
U.S. HOUSE OF QUITTERS: CONGRESS CUTS AND RUNS
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amAfter the vote in the House of Representatives to pull the troops out of Iraq, can there be any doubt that the Democratic Party is the party of treason, surrender...
FIGHTING DIRTY
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amWal-Mart's fired ad chief accused the retailing giant of waging a "smear campaign" after it disclosed embarrassing e-mails as evidence of an alleged office romance. In a statement sent by...
JEERS FOR WPP'S 'SORRELL' STATE
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amSir Martin Sorrell, the outspoken chief of ad giant WPP Group, declared himself a winner after settling his "mad dwarf" libel suit, but he is still in danger of ruining...
HIGH SCHOOL STARS BLOCKED FROM PROS LOSE A LOT
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amKEVIN Love, O.J. Mayo and Eric Gordon are each contributing $4 million-plus toward making next year's NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament as good as this year's. But they aren't contributing the...
BEN'S TUG-O-WAR
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amFederal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke is still struggling to take charge of Wall Street the way his predecessor Alan Greenspan did. The tug-of-war between the two economists intensified yesterday when...
IT'S MILLER TIME
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amProminent Bear Stearns media analyst Victor Miller is sticking to his guns after being trashed by the private-equity firms trying to persuade shareholders to support their $26 billion leveraged buyout...
AGASSI BOOK ACES $5M
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amTennis legend Andre Agassi has just fired an ace in the book world, snagging an advance estimated to be just around $5 million for his life story. The winning bid...
GOLF BOSS TO TEE UP
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amFore! Condé Nast tapped Christopher McLoughlin to be the new publisher of Golf for Women, replacing Lee Slattery, who resigned yesterday. Since October 2006, McLoughlin was the associate publisher of...
FREDDIE FIGHTS BACK
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amBroke and bruised mortgage packager New Century Financial Corp. got booted from the banking system yesterday as a new legal quagmire swelled around its exit. The federally backed underwriter Freddie...
HOUSES OF THE WEEK
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amTrumbull, Conn. $939,000 Bedrooms: 4 Bathrooms: 2 1/2 Square feet: 3,680 The suburban Northeast is where you'll find "Southern Cedars," a stately Georgian home on a 1.13-acre spread. The house...
ROYAL TREATMENT
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amSarah Ferguson, the royal squeeze of restaurateur Giuseppe Cipriani, will be living closer to her boyfriend. Sources tell us the Duchess of York is buying a large two-bedroom, 21/2-bath pied-a-terre...
THE 21 CLUB
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amFormer New York Giants superstar running back Tiki Barber recently retired from football at the peak of his career, but his days in the spotlight - and on your television...
JUST SOLD!
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amManhattan EAST VILLAGE $925,100 228 E. 13th St. Renovated prewar two-bedroom, two-bath co-op, 900 square feet, with windowed gourmet kitchen with granite countertops, floor-to-ceiling oak cabinets, wine cooler and dishwasher,...
GIVE ME LIBERTY
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amPhiladelphia is a mere 70-minute high-speed Acela train ride from New York City, but it's a world away in terms of real-estate prices. While we wish you luck finding decent...
BROTHERLY LOVE
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amIn Philadelphia's Four Seasons Hotel, there's a restaurant called the Fountain Room, named for the Alexander Calder fountain that sits just in front of the building, on the southern side...
DREAM HOMES
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amUnion Square $3.795 million No need to buy a TV before moving into this penthouse loft. The 2,466-square-foot floor-through condo with three bedrooms and 2½ bathrooms (which offer Jacuzzi tubs)...
MARTIN, COA SUSPENDED
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amFallout from Sunday's second race: When Eddie Martin Jr. put Eibar Coa in tight down backside, Coa returned the favor, dropping over on Martin heading into turn. Stewards suspended both...
CLIFF'S MINUTES FALL OFF
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amAfter 18 NBA seasons, Cliff Robinson is wise enough to be able to read the writing on the wall, even if he's still proud enough not to believe what it...
WEST VA. ENJOYING TITLE RUN
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amNIT FINAL Before West Virginia beat Mississippi State in the NIT semifinals Tuesday night, Mountaineers head coach John Beilein said, "I would rather be where we are right now than...
QUIP BE SINKING
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amMicheal Ray Richardson is in trouble again. The former Knick and Net, and current coach of the Albany Patroons, was suspended by the team for the rest of the CBA...
SPORTS SHORTS
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amBLOTTER: Urbina sentenced In Caracas, Venezuela, former Major League pitcher Ugueth Urbina was sentenced to 14 years in prison for the attempted murder of five workers on his family's ranch,...
HOYAS MASTERING PRINCETON OFFENSE
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amIn whispered voices, or in quiet places, the ugly words of racism could be heard. "Do you think the Princeton offense can work at Georgetown?" The Georgetown players heard the...
LEGENDS MANIA
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amBabe Ruth and Lawrence Taylor continue to steamroll toward a classic championship final in The Post's Legends Mania. Ruth, who already has eliminated Mel Ott, Mariano Rivera, Mickey Mantle and...
HOME OR AWAY
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amBUFFALO - The Devils' task is simple: Win at home or lose home-ice in the playoffs. They've had trouble winning anywhere lately, 2-3 on the road swing that finished with...
JETS WRAP UP DE BOWENS
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amThe Jets, who seem to be collecting free-agent defensive linemen this offseason, made possibly their biggest splash to date with the agreement to terms with former Dolphins DE David Bowens....
CRAW COMEBACK?
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amWhile Isiah Thomas acknowledged Quentin Richardson (back) and David Lee (leg pain) might be done for the regular season, Jamal Crawford did not rule out returning sooner than planned and...
A MUST HAVE VS. THE CAVS
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amThis time, there was no chance of anyone swatting away these two late Garden rainbows from Stephon Marbury's fingertips. As true as the warm spring night, Marbury fired in two...
SHORTHANDED AND SAGGING, THEY STILL WIN ... THIS TIME
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amBrick by brick, Isiah Thomas, architect of a team nine games under .500 in the fourth season of his reign, constantly tells us how the Knicks will have to be...
LEBRON LAUDS KNICKS
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amLeBron James is considered the game's top ambassador, and last night the Cleveland superstar displayed why. After James took a repeated pounding during the Knicks' 97-93 victory, he put the...
EL DUQUE ON TARGET FOR START OF SEASON
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Orlando Hernandez tossed six innings in a simulated game yesterday and said he felt ready for the start of the season. "I feel ready. I feel...
METS SHRUG OFF MARCH BADNESS
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - There is enough out there to fill any Mets fan's anxiety closet. There is the starting rotation, about which much angst already has been spilled and...
NO TOM TO SEE HALL
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Every time he earned a victory last year, Tom Glavine collected a keepsake. Glavine has never been on the disabled list, but he began to fear...
INDY MOOD TO WIN
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amThere was the continued emergence of rookie Josh Boone as a presence around the rim. There was the absorption of two hard, questionable hits and a response that was simply...
BOONE HITS STRIDE
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amMarcus Williams sees the steady growth in Josh Boone, his former UConn teammate and fellow first-round pick. "He's been ready. He's been finishing around the rim, doing all the things...
A-VERY TOUGH CALL
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amFor an individual who somehow was named the NHL's most overrated player in a poll of players recently conducted and this week published by The Hockey News, Sean Avery is...
PROBABLE PAUSE
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amTAMPA - Joe Torre is holding off naming an Opening Day starter, and because the most obvious choice is Carl Pavano, you get the feeling the Yankees manager would hold...
MENDING SPREE
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amTAMPA - Staff ace Chien-Ming Wang is still out until the end of next month, but the Yankees' pitching picture continues to get brighter. Even if Carl Pavano being the...
MO HAS NO PROBLEM WITH CONTRACT STATUS
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amTAMPA - Mariano Rivera has no problem pitching for a contract. "I am perfect with that," Rivera said of entering the season on the final year of a deal. "I...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amSomebody should have told the tumbleweeds that this ain't no ghost town. Residents of Bozeman, Mont., had to use snowplows to dig their way out from under the mounds of...
Mario & Sonic Appearing Together
March 29, 2007 | 1:01amThis is either great or horrible and I'm honestly not sure which camp I'm in.Mario and Sonic are two heavy video game rivals - sure, but Sonic has seen WAY...