June 17, 2007
Impossible to Avoid: â1408â
June 17, 2007 | 4:54pmAmong the summer movie set, the movie â1408â takes top prize this week on the talk-show circuit. Star John Cusack leads the way, checking in with Regis and Kelly on...
Marbury's pledge
June 17, 2007 | 3:42pmBy MARC BERMANI was down at Coney Island yesterday, 25th Street and Mermaid Avenue, where the Surfside projects still rise up near the boardwalk. Stephon Marbury was present to inaugurate...
WORK & PLAY
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amEvery June for the past eight years, the puppy-loving workforce has celebrated Take Your Dog to Work Day, and this year, the big day is Friday. (For information on how...
ASK DR. MICHAEL FOX
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amDEAR DR. FOX: My rescued male cocker spaniel is very clingy and often follows me around the apartment, especially when he knows I'm about to leave - a sure sign...
ADOPT ME
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amWarburton may be blind, but he's a gentle, fabulous cat. He's smart and playful, and with his hearing and sense of smell can get around quite well. Meet him to...
HOT SEAT
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amJOHN Cusack is a darling among filmgoers because he brings moral ambiguity, a dash of cynicism and obvious intelligence to the screen, making regular-guy characters seem complex. In his latest...
HOT LIST
June 17, 2007 | 9:00am1 Boy-pop swaps Who's sold out more, Justin Timberlake or Good Charlotte? They've announced a co-headlining tour, landing at the Garden Aug. 15 and 16, where both will try to...
A FORCE FARCE
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amTHE Force is strong with Seth Green. "Robot Chicken," the stop-motion animated show Green co-created with friend Matt Senreich, premieres a very special "Star Wars"-themed episode tonight on Cartoon Network's...
THIS WEEK'S DVDS
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amThe Powerpuff Girls: Season 13 ½ STARS(Turner, $26.98) Bridge to Terabithia3 ½ STARS(Disney, $29.99) Miss Potter2 ½ STARS(Weinstein, $28.95) It's a big week for kids' movies with strong adult appeal....
BAD GIRL, INTERRUPTED
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amSILLY" - that's the one-word line of dialogue upon which Angelina Jolie's new film "A Mighty Heart" turns, the moment when victim of evil becomes agent of good will. In...
RETELLING 'TALES'
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amMichael Tolliver LivesArmistead Maupin4 STARSHarperCollins, $25.95 IN 1976, Armistead Maupin began writing a weekly serial for the San Francisco Chronicle called "Tales of the City." Thanks to Maupin's vivid characterizations,...
REQUIRED READING
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amThe title of "The Diana Chronicles" (Doubleday, $27.50) by Tina Brown bluntly suggests what is inside: a tacky and vicious affair, especially since Princess Diana's sons will shortly be mourning...
QUITE HANDSOME
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amSilver Lucite "Biba" ring with semiprecious stones set in an 18k gold-plated bezel, $295, at Alexis Bittar, 465 Broome St. Twinkle by Wenlan gold-plated sterling silver "Oasis" ring, $46, at...
WHITE HOT DUO
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amAFTER a decade of musical partnership between drummer Meg White and guitarist Jack White, the garage-rock revivalists have regressed to the same low-fi sound and nuts-and-bolts arrangements that were the...
'HAVE MERCY' ON THEM
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amAFTER all he's been through, Mooney Suzuki leader Sammy James Junior. could be forgiven for wanting to take a match to the music industry. After a stint with Columbia Records...
BON JOVI: "LOST HIGHWAY"
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amIn Nashville they're saying that Bon Jovi has gone country, but on the Jersey side word is that country has simply co-opted Jon Bon Jovi's pumped-up arena-rock style. Despite guest...
POLYPHONIC SPREE: "THE FRAGILE ARMY"
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amFollowing 2004's "Together We're Happy" - an album that would have been the year's worst disc had William Hung not issued a CD - Texas symphonic-rock collective the Polyphonic Spree...
LOVIN' LARGE
June 17, 2007 | 9:00am'WHEN you attempt Barry White, you either on it or you off," explains 46-year-old Lanar, a Manhattan minister who is starring in an off-Broadway production about the plus-size crooner's legacy....
SHEEP IMPACT
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amTHERE'S something baaaaaaaaaaad down on the farm. That, says writer-director Jonathan King, was the first tagline that sprung to mind when he had the idea to create a movie about...
COMEDIC PRAISE
June 17, 2007 | 9:00am'EVAN Almighty" needs a miracle. The sequel to "Bruce Almighty," starring Steve Carell as a congressman with an ark-load of animals and a trunk full of fake beards, has suffered...
'KILLER' ROLE
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amThere are some showbiz mysteries we'll just never solve: Why doesn't Donald Trump change his hair? How does Carlos Mencia manage to stay on television? And why on earth don't...
SINGLED OUT
June 17, 2007 | 9:00am'SO, do you have someone special?" Ah. The question with which many single women of a certain age are all too well acquainted. "You get to be in your mid-30s,...
CYBORG INVASION
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amPARK Chan-wook, whose megaviolent revenge saga "Old boy" influenced the man who killed 32 people at Virginia Tech in April, has a new movie, but it is not likely to...
'HEARTLAND'
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amTV surgeons are a dime a dozen these days. There's Hugh Laurie's brilliant but ornery Gregory House on Fox, " Patrick Dempsey's sensitive but immature Derek Shepherd on ABC's "Grey's...
THE DON'T MISS LIST
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amCATEGORY: DRAMA In the weird 'Zone' In the new season on "Dead Zone," Johnny (Anthony Michael Hall) is hit with a series of visions of friends in imminent danger on...
REEL GOOD
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amPRESUMED INNOCENT (1990) Tuesday, 6 p.m., Oxygen Harrison Ford is a prosecutor who gets framed for the murder of his former lover in this taught drama that hits all the...
MISS LONELY HEARTS
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amIt's tough to find love when you have no teeth. So tough that when a 39-year-old dentally challenged man walked in to see Buffalo's premiere yente, Patti Novak, she took...
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amFaina Savich of "So You Think You Can Dance" is a dancer with helpful television connections. Her brother, Stanislav Savich, was a top 20 finalist on last year's show. And...
IN AND OUT LIST
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amCATEGORY: SUMMER SERIES In: Surfers HBO's surf drama "John From Cincinnati" is the most strangely compelling new series of the summer. Fans can rejoice in the hasty return of "Deadwood"...
TV JUKEBOX PUMPS UP SUMMER SHOWS
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amWhat's the difference between a show that is merely good and one that is very, very good? These days, it often comes down to music. I am increasingly impressed with...
GREEN SCENE!
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amVINCENT van Gogh cut off his ear under its influence, and author Paul Verlaine shot his friend Arthur Rimbaud after drinking a large glass of it. But this wasn't the...
MASON, 37, AND UNGER, 35
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amMAY 5 - Sometimes, the best things are right before your eyes even if you can't see them. Benjamin Unger and Kelly Murphy Mason both attended Harvard as undergraduates, but...
CHUNGATA, 34, AND CASTILLO, 25
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amMAY 24 - There's nothing like an exotic locale to set the mood for falling in love. In February 2006, Miguel Chungata's friend decided to visit family and friends in...
KRINSKY, 32, AND KAY, 28
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amJUNE 3 - Forty rose petals lining Fifth Avenue is not something most New Yorkers commonly see. But when your favorite movie is "Breakfast at Tiffany's," a proposal complete with...
CIMPERMAN, 33, AND LAMARRE, 34
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amMAY 10 - Sarah Cimperman and Bruno Lamarre got married on the 10-year anniversary of the day they met in Toulouse, France. Together, they spent the last decade traveling the...
BARCHI, 25, AND VIKARA, 35
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amMARCH 9 - Michael Vikara caught Lena Barchi's attention when showing off a new tattoo to a friend in Nawton's, a Westbury, L.I., watering hole. Months later, Vikara made clear...
MIKE'S HALF-'REFORM'
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amOK, now we get it: Truly equitable campaign-finance reform in New York City is just too darned heavy a lift for Mayor Mike and the City Council. Funny. First Mayor...
HARRY-KIRI REID
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amDemocrats claim to "support the troops," but they never seem to tire of bashing them and their leaders in the field. Take Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Last week, he...
PRAYING FOR OUR DAD
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amLAST Christmas Eve, our dad sat by the tree proudly watching his family. It was a true treat - it's rare that all seven of us, plus his son-in-law and...
KELLOGG'S: A SAD CEREAL SELLOUT
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amTHIS month, Kellogg's did a mea culpa for the implied nutritional deficiencies of its cereals, including Froot Loops, Apple Jacks and Cocoa Krispies. The famed Battle Creek, Mich., cereal maker...
DESPAIRING OVER IRAQ
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amLAST month in Iraq, Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Ore.), had lunch with three soldiers from his state, one of whom had been working with an Iraqi officer training police cadets. That...
SILENT AMNESTY
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amAS you follow the debate over the Bush-Kennedy immigration bill, keep this cardinal rule in mind: 99.99 percent of the lawmakers who promise you that they'll ensure the deportation of...
N.Y.C.'S CONGESTION FIX: SAME TRAFFIC, NEW FEE
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amTHE ISSUE: Mayor Bloomberg's bid for a city-wide congestion-pricing plan. Just what New Yorkers need - another hidden tax incorporated by rich politicians ("Mike's Toll Order," Editorial, June 11). Mayor...
PUZZLE PALACE
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amFREDERICK J. CHIAVENTONETHE PENTAGON: A HISTORYBY STEVE VOGELRANDOM HOUSE, 500 PAGES, $32.95 STEVE Vogel's marvelous work recounts the construction of one of the world's most iconic buildings - the Pentagon....
BACKSTAGE AT THE MET
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amMUSEUM: BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTBY DANNY DANZIGERVIKING, 274 PAGES, $27.95 SIZE matters - especially when it comes to bragging rights. Every New Yorker can point...
IF ONLY HITLER HADN'T
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amFATEFUL CHOICES: TEN DECISIONS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD, 1940-1941BY IAN KERSHAWTHE PENGUIN PRESS, 596 PAGES, $35 EVERYBODY loves the "If only" game. If only the Iraqi army had not been...
NEW DADS EXPECTED TO PUSH GIFTS
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amIt may be Father's Day but. . . Push Presents, the yet-another-occasion-to-buy-a-present trend that has been percolating around the fringe of pop culture for years, may finally be ready to...
GOOGLE THIS!
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amIt may be like trying to re-establish your virginity. You know, Google trying to get back its patina of invincibility. Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the 30-something mega-billionaire founders of...
MARTHA INK
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amTattoo art is ready for its close-up. Long relegated to the sidelines of pop culture, used for belt buckles, biker fashion, bar ware and little else, tattoo art is shedding...
ANTENNAE: CASH COWS
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amThe owner of a South Ozone Park car wash has a lot in common with Steve Jobs, the billionaire CEO of Apple - they both stand to profit handsomely from...
TINA IS NOT INTO MAGS RIGHT NOW
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amTina Brown, basking in the glow of her hot-selling Princess Diana book, appears to be so over the magazine business. "I really don't see any magazine out there," she said...
THIS WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amWINNERSPETER BONEPARTH Jones Apparel Group boss nears deal to sell Barneys unit for about $900 million, three years after buying it for $400 million.TINA BROWN Her first serious book, "The...
BATTLE FOR MANHATTAN HOUSE HEATS UP
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amIt's not just the tenants who are allegedly getting booted from their market-rate apartments at Manhattan House. Now it's the new owners who are trying to evict each other. Jeremiah...
HONING THE KNIVES
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amAS excitement for Apple's iPhone builds, Silicon Valley's Steve Jobs haters are sharpening their knives and predicting a fall for the tech and design wizard. One knife-thrower said Apple's move...
CAN SCHWARZMAN MYSTIQUE TRANSCEND POLITICS?
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amBY all measures, it's been quite a year for Steve Schwarzman, the buyout king who heads the Blackstone Group. First there was the multimillion-dollar 60th-birthday party he threw for a...
NO ALTERNATIVE TO AMT, NO KIDDING
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amDear John: Is there any way I can avoid paying the Alternative Minimum Tax? Do the number of children you have affect the tax? B.F. Dear B.F.: Nice question for...
DWELLER BEWARE
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amRetirees needing cash and thinking about getting a reverse mortgage to pump up their monthly cash flow should tread carefully - the fees attached to the loans can get pricey...
THE HIGH-RATED & THE MIGHTY YOUNG
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amChess THE race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong but, as Damon Runyon said, that's the way to bet. And when it comes to...
SCHOOL WEAPON-SCAN 'SUCCESS'
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amStudents checked more than 1,500 guns, knives and other dangerous items at the door at New York City schools this year - down 18 percent from last year. From July...
HARLEY HOG HEAVEN FOR FAST EMTS
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amIf the Fire Department gives the go-ahead, Harley-Davidson is ready to donate eight of its motorcycles to the Emergency Medical Service so paramedics can get to life-threatening emergencies more quickly....
SURGE IN SLAYINGS SHOCKS BROOKLYN
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amA crime wave grows in Brooklyn, where murder is up 34 percent in the north half of the borough and muggings and bank robberies plague its highest-income area. The NYPD's...
'UNIFORM'LY $ATISFIED
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amCity medics have finally won uniformed status in a long-running lawsuit with the city. Last week's ruling from the state Court of Appeals means EMS unions will bargain from a...
'BUST'ED GAL PAYOFF
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amWho knew it was legal for a woman to walk around with her breasts exposed in New York? Well, one woman did - and a cop didn't - and now...
FATHER'S DAY SORROW FOR SLAIN DAD'S 7 DAUGHTERS
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amSeven devastated daughters will spend Father's Day honoring the hero dad who died protecting two of them from the armed thugs who held up his Queens bodega. "We're going to...
DOCTOR 'DISEASE'
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amThe anesthesiologist under in vestigation for possibly infect ing three patients with he patitis C and others with hepatitis B has a history of negligence and fraud, The Post has...
FDNY'S 9/11-TOLL SHOCKER
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amAbout 5,000 active and retired FDNY employees are receiving medical treatment for injuries and illnesses connected to the World Trade Center attacks, according to a Fire Department document. "That is...
COPS COLLAR QUEENS 'CHOKER'
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amHe chokes women and steals their money - because it's "easy." A sicko who admitted to having sneaked up behind at least four women, choked them unconscious and robbed them...
COPS SHOOT QNS. GUNMAN
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amAn apparently drunken man wielding a pellet gun was shot and critically injured by cops last night in Queens, police sources said. The unidentified man was confronted by cops at...
'GOTTA-SELL' GOTTI UNLOADING PAD
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amMake "Junior" Gotti an offer he can't refuse - he could use the cash. John Gotti, the scion of the Gambino crime family, is so strapped, he's looking to unload...
VETERAN COP SHOOTS HIMSELF
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amAn NYPD officer with about 19 years on the job shot himself dead yesterday in a Midtown hotel room after he finished his shift, sources said. The patrolman's body was...
25 SWIMMERS DO MANHATTAN
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amMore than two dozen swimmers completed a grueling 281/2-mile trek around Manhattan yesterday. Australian Penny Palfrey, 44, took first place in the 25th annual Manhattan Island Marathon Swim - braving...
MEDAL FOR MARINE WHO DIED A HERO
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amA Brooklyn Marine killed by a sniper's bullet in Iraq last year was remembered by loved ones yesterday as the Marines posthumously presented his family with his Silver Star. Capt....
$AVE OUR YACHTS FROM TERRORISM
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amSag Harbor, the Hamptons port-of-call playground for the ultra-wealthy, says it's a terror target and wants federal and state funds to shore up security at its yacht-filled marina. The village...
GAL MEDICS HIT FDNY FOR 'BIAS' IN TRAINING
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amA dozen female medics who feel they were unfairly singled out by the Fire Department for retraining on special chemical respirators are preparing to file a complaint with the FDNY....
JFK DELAYS SET TO SOAR
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amThe massive delays announced last week at Kennedy Airport were just the beginning. Flights to and from the airport have surged 27 percent in the first quarter of this year...
METH TO MADNESS GROWING
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amCrystal meth use among young Americans is twice as high as previously thought, according to a new study. The National Institutes of Health revealed Friday that 2.8 percent of young...
JAIL 'BAITING'
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amThey claim they've been treated like slaves and sex objects, and now five veteran female correction officers are suing the city and some of their Rikers Island supervisors for discrimination...
DAD OF 5 SLAIN OVER BEER BUY
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amA father of five was stabbed to death over a beer in a brutal Bronx bar attack yesterday, witnesses said. José Tenemaza , 39, was savagely knifed as he came...
TEARS FOR TRAGIC N.J. CHOKE GIRL
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amA "sweet, wonderful" 6-year-old New Jersey girl was strangled in a backyard playset tragedy, cops said yesterday. Dah-hee Choi of Wyckoff was alone on a playset in her backyard Friday...
BIG HORSE $NIT SUIT VS. FIRM
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amAn Australian company backed by New York real-estate billionaire Stephen Ross in its $1.8 billion bid to run the state's horse-racing tracks didn't pony up on a consultant's bill, a...
U.S. GIVE$ ABBAS LEG UP ON HAMAS
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amIn a blow to Hamas, a U.S. official said yesterday the economic embargo against the Palestinian government will be lifted - allowing aid to flow to the terror group's enemy,...
DICE-ROLL ON 'MONOPOLY' FILM
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amBritish film director Ridley Scott has jumped on board to turn Monopoly - the world's best-selling game - into an improbable feature-length movie, it was reported. The director of "Gladiator"...
DUKE D.A. STRIPPED OF LICENSE
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amThe disgraced district attorney who prosecuted the Duke lacrosse players was disbarred yesterday after he told a disciplinary panel that was the punishment he deserved. Former Durham County prosecutor Mike...
INSIDE JFK JR.'S DAZE OF DOOM
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amJohn F. Kennedy Jr.'s last, terror-filled minutes were spent not knowing up from down, frantically pulling at his plane's controls in a panicked attempt to right its deadly spiral. The...
'SOPRANO' CATNIP
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amOn the "Sopranos," life often imitated art. In the series finale, Paulie Walnuts, played by Tony Sirico, doesn't want to have anything to do with a stray cat that starts...
EXTRA, EXTRA!
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amLooks like Paris Hilton did get special treatment for her sentencing - just not the kind she was hoping for. Hilton will spend more time in the clink than the...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amQUEENS A home-health aide was nabbed for stealing child-support cash meant for the autistic child she cares for, authorities said yesterday. On May 23, Juanita Phillips, 39, allegedly deposited into...
PARKING-GARAGE BIGS REV UP CAR-FEE FOE
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amA LEADING opponent of Mayor Bloom berg's congestion- pricing plan has received more than $40,000 in campaign contributions from parking-garage interests since 2001. Records show that David Weprin, chairman of...
LOTTERY
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amNEW YORK Midday Nos. Sat.: 340; Lucky Sum: 7 / Midday Win-4 Sat.: 5264; Lucky Sum: 17 / Evening Nos. Sat.: 935; Lucky Sum: 17 / Evening Win-4 Sat.: 3677;...
CUT TO THE CHASE
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amWE SHOULD all be so lucky as to have David Chase write for us. We should all be allowed the option to let our personal screens cut to black, leaving...
SONIC BOOM FOR P.J.
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amFOR those still engrossed in the Spurs-Cavaliers series, Kobe Bryant met Friday in Spain with Lakers owner Jerry Buss and demanded to be traded. More or less - depending on...
AD NAUSEAM
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amIT'S AS if someone suddenly issued a serious challenge; some major-league team declared it will surpass Yankees radio broadcasts as the worst creations in professional mass public communications. So the...
JACKIE'S LIVING LEGACY
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amAS THE Mets and Yankees beat up on each other this weekend in the Subway Series, there is one area where both teams are winners. Each club sponsors a Jackie...
LET THE TRADES BEGIN!
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amTHE end of the draft signals the beginning of the trading season. Clubs refocus their energies, enterprise and manpower to scour and scout available major-league talents. Organizations more seriously contemplate...
SKATING ON THIN ICE
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amDOES the NBA have to change all of its rules now, too, so it appeals to a mass television audience? How about if hockey was baseball, and refused to use...
GETTING TEED OFF
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amAfter a modestly successful junior career on the links as a 0.8 handicap, Post reporter Brett Cyrgalis is forging a comeback, attempting to compete with the best amateur golfers in...
WOODS HAS BEEN THERE, WON THAT
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amOAKMONT, Pa. - It's the subtle psychology that only those who have conquered golf's ultimate pressure cooker can employ, the kind of gamesmanship that begins the moment after the third...
IF AT 1ST YOU DON'T SUCCEED . . .
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amFIRST BASE is packed with fantasy power. From Albert Pujols to Ryan Howard to Derrek Lee to Justin Morneau. It's the deepest of all infield positions. And judging by some...
MINOR MIRACLE
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amFUELED by the 11-2 record they have compiled over the past two weeks, the Yankees officially have returned to respectability in the American League. But in spite of their recent...
HUNTING UNDER FIRE IN N.J.
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amTHERE is a bill being pushed in the New Jersey assembly that could result in the end of hunting in the Garden State. Legislation that would revamp the New Jersey...
DOWN UNDER 2
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amOAKMONT, Pa. - Aaron Baddeley would like to make it two Australian U.S. Open winners in a row. Baddeley, who made his first U.S. Open cut in three tries, entered...
TIGER STRIKES UP THE 'BADD'
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amOAKMONT, Pa. - Tiger Woods has positioned himself to accomplish something he's never done before in his astonishing career: come from behind to win his lucky 13th major championship. Woods,...
'PAULIE! PAULIE!'
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amUNCASVILLE, Conn. - One year after leaving the Garden a valiant but battered and beaten fighter when he lost a WBO junior welterweight title bout to Miguel Cotto, Brooklyn's Paul...
KENSETH'S THE INVISIBLE MAN
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amDale Earnhardt Jr.'s decision to move to Hendrick Motorsports overshadowed Matt Kenseth's climb to second in the Nextel Cup point standings this week. A fitting situation for Kenseth, whose consistently...
EBANKS PICKS THE HOOSIERS
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amDevin Ebanks was well aware of the problems Indiana head coach Kelvin Sampson had while he was at Oklahoma - the infractions he was penalized for when he left the...
ANGEL GETS BULLS EVEN IN THE END
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amNo one in MLS has ever scored this much, this quickly, but the way the Red Bulls play defense, Juan Pablo Angel's heroics are barely enough. Angel salvaged a 3-3...
THE RUMBLE
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amEye of the Tigress Cheyenne Woods making own mark on links While most teenage girls aspire to go to Disney World for the theme parks, Cheyenne Woods is different -...
VAC'S WHACKS
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amAfter listening to Jonathan Vilma the other day, I thought it only fair that in the interest of equal time I interview Rigby, my Airdale terrier, and this is what...
HONDO CALLS THE 'DOGS
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amRenteria, a member in good standing of Hondo's All-Disease Team, unloaded on the Indians yester day, which enabled Mr. Aitch to score easily with the Braves and raise the tally...
SPORTS SHORTS
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amNBA: Brown interested in Kings Larry Brown, the veteran NBA coach who had a disappointing single season coaching the Knicks in his most recent stint on the bench, would be...
OAKMONT OUTRAGE
June 17, 2007 | 9:00am* I don't relish seeing great golfers fail their way to success with scores like 5-over-par or worse. I don't like seeing highly skilled players make pinpoint approach shots onto...
MANGINI AUDIBLES ON FINAL DAY OF JETS' MINI-CAMP
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amThe Jets showed up for practice yesterday at Hofstra and found out that Eric Mangini had changed the gameplan. Maybe his cameo on "The Sopranos" prompted him to come up...
STEPHON: I'D BE OK WITH KOBE
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amStephon Marbury opened his wallet to New York City policemen, firemen and teachers yesterday and opened his arms to Kobe Bryant becoming a Knick. In an appearance yesterday in Marbury's...
NO LEAD SAFE IN BRONX BASHING
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amOliver Perez might have been able to stall the Yankees offense. But Tom Glavine let the Bombers' bats explode again. On Friday night against the Mets, the Yanks were shut...
JETER STILL WINNING GREAT SHORTSTOP DEBATE
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amTHERE is nothing better than a challenge, and Derek Jeter is making the most of the battle of New York shortstops. Jeter scorched four hits yesterday, including a two-run home...
295 AND HOLDING
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amTOM GLAVINE will get to No. 300. Surely with help from Scott Schoeneweis, with a home-run barrage by Carlos Delgado, maybe even with Carlos Beltran's next big hit, Glavine will...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q&A WITH...LEE MAZZILLI
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amThe Post's Steve Serby sat down with the SNY pre- and post-game host at Polpo restaurant in Greenwich, Conn., not far from the former Met and Yankee's home: Q: Condolences...
SLUMPING DELGADO ENCOURAGED BY PAIR OF SINGLES
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amWhen you're struggling at the plate like Carlos Delgado has been this year, you'll take even the smallest positives. So, after getting two hits in yesterday's 11-8 Mets' loss to...
WANG TIME COMING
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amWith victories in his last three starts and five of his last six, Chien-Ming Wang is rolling. But pitching coach Ron Guidry theorized yesterday that we might not have seen...
BELTRAN BELTLESS AGAIN
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amAt least this time Carlos Beltran swung. The Mets $119-million center fielder came up yesterday in another big ninth inning spot but failed to come through, just like Game 7...
BELLY BUSTER
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amJohnny Damon doesn't anticipate missing more time because of a strained abdominal muscle, but he admits he's hurting. A day after the Yankees made him a late scratch from the...
MO SHOWS LUIS HOW TO GET DOWN TO VIZ-NESS
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amYou might've heard of the movie "The Hills Have Eyes." Mariano Rivera's ninth inning played out like the baseball version of the horror flick - with a happy ending for...
IT'S TY-ME TO GO
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amThe dollar signs indicated Tyler Clippard was probably a goner one way or another. But the rookie right-hander yesterday made the decision easy for the Yankees: Welcome back, Kei Igawa....
A-ROD BRINGS A-GAME
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amFor the Yankees' sake it was a good thing Alex Rodriguez noticed his bat was cracked. But then, with A-Rod, maybe it wouldn't have made a difference. Rodriguez hit a...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amA mom complained that an Applebee's in Antioch, Calif., served her toddler a margarita instead of apple juice in his sippy cup. Kim Mayorga said son Julian, 2, became drowsy,...
MEET MARKET
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amLADIES, brace yourself: Joe, a 28-year-old real estate accountant, is the prototypical tall, dark and handsome guy - and he just happens to be single and looking for a date....
GIN AND PLATONIC
June 17, 2007 | 9:00amNothing helps move a halting conversation along like a cocktail or two ... or six. Both Jill, a 27-year-old graduate student, and Dan, a 28-year-old physician services representative, are firm...