August 3, 2007
Tony Hawk is hardcore
First of all, "Tony Hawk's Proving Ground," out this fall, is a good looking game. I saw it yesterday and was totally impressed by the graphics. Anyway, the newest edition...
Scene
Alissa Daner, PR Manager for Le Sportsac, wears a cute Mint dress, a Miu Miu bag, and Maria Bonita shoes. "I dress in summer for comfort but still on-trend. Rachel...
The new and improved PSP
OK, so maybe "new" is a slight overstatement. But, Sony's definitely made some improvements on their PlayStation Portable. Not only is it 1/3 lighter (definitely noticeable when you're holding it...
Super Saturday: Part 2
Missed last week's sale in in the Hamptons?While we can't guarantee there will be any Marc leftover - you can sort through the remaining merch in your pyjamas.Shop the Super...
Some quick updates
Not too much going on here in Chicago yet. Terrific city, by the way. Here are a couple quick things, though: Luis Castillo was in the lineup today, but now...
Hindsight for Sale
No wonder the Marc Jacobs table at the Hampton's Super Saturday always looks like WWF's Wrestlemania 1. The deals are steals.They were selling this Mairead Patchwork Dress for $75. Nordstrom...
Deal of the Day
Behold these holey kicks from Michael Kors.The Perforated Sneakers are a tweaked version of the old school preppy variety and will look chic and a tad edgy with just about...
MAGS: Whose 'cheap' is it anyway?
Paris for $60 a night? Sure, if you stay at this tiny studio in the 13th (rent via LodgisIt's not that we're egging summer on to a conclusion or anything,...
FIVE-THOUGHT FRIDAY: CLEMENS, GAGNE, BERMAN
We are back with Five-Thought Friday:1. Roger Clemens turns 45 tomorrow and, maybe, we are finally reaching the point where we donât have to wonder if he will pitch again...
Bourne Again
Speaking of blood, we critics have hopefully driven a stake through the heart of the vile "Bratz'' (I gave it zero stars, RT has it at a pathetic 9 percent...
OUR WONDERFUL, WACKY PETS
Pets add so much joy to our lives and they don't ask for much in return. Today's Classroom Extra takes a look at our four-legged, winged and water-loving friends. WHAT...
OSAKA TO ME!
TAKE my kimono. Please. Katsura Koharudanji is taking his "sit-down comedy" to stand-up New York. Tonight through Sunday, he hopes to kill at Florence Gould Hall while sitting (or kneeling)...
SLIM LENDS A HAND
WILLIE Nelson is al ready a fan and so is Dale Watson, but it took decades for honky-tonk singer James "Slim" Hand to release an album on a countrywide scale....
LATE PERSPECTIVE HELPS EXAMINE LIFE
'UNANSWERED ques tions. Unquestioned answers. I do someone good dead. I do someone dead good." Such is the level of faux profundity and pseudo- poeticism in "The Black Eyed," Betty...
BANKENSTEIN
MEL Brooks loves green. And not just in monsters. The creator of "Young Frankenstein" has carved out what theater insiders are calling an "unprecedented" deal for himself that could earn...
SEEING THE MIDEAST CRISIS THROUGH A FAMILY STRUGGLE
IT'S no accident that "Masked" - about three Palestinian brothers being torn apart during the early days of the Intifada - is set in the back of a West Bank...
B'WAY'S BIG BUCKS
Mel Brooks isn't the first to make a killing in the theater. Here are some of Broadway's biggest payouts: *Andrew Lloyd Webber, the melody-meister behind "Cats" and "The Phantom of...
STARR REPORT
The Chase is onAMC celebrates Chevy Chase's movie career Sunday with a "Chevy Chase Mara thon." Hosted by Chase, the marathon airs from noon to 10 p.m. with screenings of...
HEAVILY ARMED
TO fully appreciate "Masters of Science Fiction," a four- epi sode anthology series on ABC, you must, as they say, suspend disbelief. I say this because the series, a slide...
ROBIN'S SURGERY TODAY
RESIDENTS of the Missis sippi Gulf Coast region where "Good Morning America" co-host Robin Roberts grew up are rallying to support their hometown gal as she heads to surgery today...
OFF THE HOOK
DOG won't be collared after all. Mexican officials have dropped all charges against "Dog the Bounty Hunter" star Duane "Dog" Chapman stemming from his apprehension of convicted rapist Andrew Luster...
DEAN DOES 'SMALLVILLE'
DEAN Cain, who played Superman in "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman," won't be donning the cape again - but he will visit his old haunts. Cain has...
BOURNE AGAIN
The best of the summer's three-peats is also the pulse-pounding peak of the Bourne trilogy, with Matt Damon in top form as the anguished CIA assassin, who travels from London...
SIGHT MAKES SORE EYES TURN SULLEN
WATCHING "The Willow Tree," I thought of the old adage about being careful about what you wish for - you just might get it. In this Iranian melodrama, Youssef, a...
IT'S HARD TO BLAME THIS FLICK
LIKE father, like daughter. Julie Gavras, offspring of famed Greek-born filmmaker Constantin Costa-Gavras, makes an assured feature-directing debut with "Blame It on Fidel." The film looks at life in the...
ROD AWFUL
'HOT Rod" started to go wrong at about the time someone in cast ing said, "You know what? I'll bet America's just about ready for the comedy stylings of Sissy...
THOU SHALT NOT COVET VULGARITY, UNLESS . . .
MULTI-SEGMENT movies tend to be notoriously un even, and this definitely proves to be the case with "The Ten," a series of proudly tasteless comic sketches loosely inspired by the...
REAL J.LO DOWNER
A sizzling soundtrack and Jennifer Lopez's best performance ince "Out of Sight" go only so far in "El Cantante," a downer of a musical biopic that leaves no cliché unturned....
IT MUST BITE
'UNDERDOG," a comedy about a talking pooch, opened today without advance screenings for critics, a sure sign that the movie is a dog. Kyle Smith's review will appear tomorrow in...
YOU'LL BE BURNED BY BEACH NOIR
REMEMBER how "Double Indemnity" featured smart criminals and a smarter investigator? The indie film "If I Didn't Care," with its dumb criminals and dumb cops, is a sort of "Double...
NOT-PLAIN 'JANE' HAS PRIDE
IT is a truth universally ac knowledged that hack critics must begin their reviews of Jane Austen works with the words "It is a truth universally acknowledged." But I'll skip...
BRATZ
NO, "Bratz," an unwitting and witless critique of American consumerism run amok, does not star Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie. Four unknown actresses you will hopefully never hear...
HOT PICKS
THUMB JOCKS Gentlemen, start your inhalers! It's go time tomorrow and Sunday when 250-XBox360 and PC gamers - who emerged from a pool of 10,000 - meet at the Time...
BROADWAY
"A CHORUS LINE": 2 ½ STARS A clean carbon copy of a great original. Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, 236 W. 45th St.; (212) 239-6200. "CURTAINS":2 STARTS Tony-winning David Hyde Pierce as...
LONG-RUNNING
"AVENUE Q":3 STARTS John Golden Theatre, 252 W. 45th St.; (212) 239-6200. "CHICAGO":4 STARTS Ambassador Theatre, 219 W. 49th St.; (212) 239-6200. "THE COLOR PURPLE":3 STARTS Broadway Theatre, 1681 Broadway;...
OFF-BROADWAY
"ABSINTHE":3 ½ STARTS The sequel to last year's hit European-style burlesque show, performed in a vintage traveling tent at the South Street Seaport, (800) 276-2392. "ANGRY YOUNG WOMEN IN LOW-RISE...
POP, ROCK, FOLK
INCUBUS AND THE BRAVERY: California indie band Incubus headlines a Thursday show, where local faves the Bravery are sure to be a big draw at 8 p.m. Jones Beach Theatre,...
JAZZ
BIRDLAND:Tonight and tomorrow: Sax man Lew Tabackin's quartet featuring pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi - his wife. 315 W. 44th St.; (212) 581-3080. BLUE NOTE:Tonight and tomorrow: the Duke Ellington Orchestra. 131...
CLASSICAL
TODAY:The St. Lawrence String Quartet plays the late Beethoven quartetsas part of the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center's Rose Auditorium, 8 p.m.; 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, (212) 875-5000. For...
CABARET
CARNEGIE CLUB:Tomorrow: Steve Maglio performs Sinatra. 156 W. 56th St.; (212) 957-9676. DON'T TELL MAMA: Tomorrow: Poole Party! 343 W. 46th St.; (212) 757-0788. THE METROPOLITAN ROOM: Tonight and tomorrow:...
PREVIEWS
"GREASE": More than 35 years after debuting on Broadway, the musical that brought us "Grease Lightening," "Summer Nights" and "We Go Together" is back for another run. Brooks Atkinson Theatre,...
UPCOMING
ZZ TOP: Tickets go on sale tomorrow to see the Texas beard band that sings about "Legs," "Tush" and "Cheap Sunglasses" Sept. 27 at 8 p.m. at the Beacon Theatre,...
DANCE
BROOKLYN MUSEUM:The Charles Moore Dance Theatre presents West Indian and Caribbean hoofers accompanied by live percussionists. 200 Eastern Parkway, at Washington Avenue, Brooklyn; (718) 638-5000. Free. JOYCE THEATER:Pilobolus performs three...
FILM
BAM ROSE CINEMA: Commemorating Mozart's 250th birthday, the New Crowned Hope festival unreels. Today: Apichatpong Weerasethakul's "Syndromes and a Century" (2006). Tomorrow: Garin Nugroho's "Operation Jawa" (2006). Sunday: Tsai Ming-liang's...
COMEDY
CAROLINES:Tuesday: Andrew Dice Clay. 1626 Broadway; (212) 757-4100. COMIC STRIP LIVE:Through Sunday: William Stephenson, Sherrod Small, Rob Magnotti. 1568 Second Ave.; (212) 861-9386. COMEDY CELLAR:Tonight and tomorrow: Dave Attell, Ahmed...
FAIRS, FESTS, ETC...
FARMERS' MARKET AT ROCKEFELLER CENTER: Regional farmers sell flowers, produce and more Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., through Aug. 17. Between Fifth and Sixth avenues...
CASINO BEAT
NEW JERSEY *TOM JONES plays tonight at 9, tomorrow at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 7 p.m. in the Resorts' Superstar Theater. Tickets: $100; resortsac.com, (800) 322-SHOW. *Legends B.B. KING,...
MUSEUM PICK
THE CONEY ISLAND MUSEUM: A quarter century of freak shows, family fun and more are explored in photographs at the "Wild Kingdom" exhibit. Admission is only 99 cents and there's...
WEEKEND SUBWAY GUIDE
1, 2, 3 trains: No 1 trains between 14th Street and South Ferry. Take either the 2 or 3, which are running local between 96th and Chambers. Shuttle buses replace...
PLEA FOR B'KLYN FIREHOUSE
Brooklyn activists are trying to persuade the Bloomberg administration to keep a shuttered Cobble Hill firehouse intact - in the hope that the next mayor will reopen it. The city...
MIKE GETS A BIG HAMMER TO POUND ILLEGAL CONVERTERS
Mayor Bloomberg signed several bills into law yesterday toughening the enforcement powers of the Buildings Department - particularly against contractors who do illegal conversions and builders of one-, two- and...
DISGRACED SPITZER CRONY LAWYERS UP
ALBANY - Gov. Spitzer's communications director, who refused to cooperate with Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's dirty-tricks probe, has now hired a prominent criminal lawyer, it was revealed yesterday. Darren Dopp,...
CITY NEEDS A SPAN DOCTOR
Even after billions of tax dollars were spent to repair the city's bridges over the past decade, state inspectors have determined that 84 percent of the city's 19 largest spans...
TRAGIC MADNESS OF KING GEORGE
A new report paints a disturbing portrait of Yankee owner George Steinbrenner as a befuddled, bloated old man in "dreadful" shape who bears little resemblance to the once-feared Boss. An...
BOMBERS MAY BE SOLD WITH YES NET
A new owner of the Yankees could be determined by the end of September, sources told The Post. While representatives for baseball's most storied franchise insist the Bronx Bombers are...
RUDY RIDES JERSEY 'WAVE' OF SUPPORT
Republican presidential front-runner Rudy Giuliani told New Jersey beach residents yesterday that America must remain on offense against Islamic terrorism, citing the thwarted plan to blow up the Fort Dix...
JAYSON NEMESIS RESIGNS
The lead prosecutor in the Jayson Williams manslaughter case has abruptly quit his job, just weeks after a judge scheduled a retrial of the former NBA star. "I resigned Tuesday,"...
SPECTOR 'VICTIM' IN COMEDY VIDEO RÉSUMÉ
The Phil Spector defense team yesterday played in court a comedy video made by alleged slay victim Lana Clarkson, in which she dresses up in blackface and mugs for the...
ALL PLAY BALL ON RANDALLS I.
Kids from public and private schools alike will be able to enjoy 63 new fields on Randall's Island once the project is completed in two years, city officials said at...
QNS. RAPE-RAP POL IS INDICTED
Embattled Queens Councilman Dennis Gallagher confirmed last night that he was indicted for first-degree rape yesterday in an alleged attack on a married mom. The married father of two was...
GUN CLUE IN BODEGA DAD SLAY
The gun used to kill a Queens bodega owner during a botched robbery in June was linked to a shooting in Brooklyn two months earlier, sources said. Detectives are hoping...
(TRANS) FAT CITY
A month after the city's trans-fat ban went into effect, a study released yesterday found that french fries from fast-food behemoths Wendy's and Burger King contain shockingly unhealthy levels of...
STAFF SUES NOBU OVER TIP CHOP$
Wait staff at Robert De Niro's Nobu restaurants are raging mad over a fishy tip policy that gives managers at the Japanese eateries a cut of their cash, and yesterday...
BOON FOR STRANDED FLIERS
ALBANY - Airline passengers stuck on tarmacs in New York will be guaranteed basics like food and water under a bill signed into law by Gov. Spitzer yesterday. The new...
'LOW' BAIL FOR SLAY SUSPECT
An Albanian immigrant - the only man standing after a gun battle with two armed thugs - faced a judge in Queens yesterday where the prosecutor said he could well...
CARNEGIE HAULED TO COURT
Tenants facing eviction from their homes above Carnegie Hall have gone to court to keep the fat lady from singing. In papers filed yesterday in Manhattan Supreme Court, more than...
ADOPTION MOM 'NO MEANIE'
She's accused of abusing her adopted children, but her biological son says she's a saint. "She's a loving, caring mom and grandma," Eddie Leekin said about his mother, Judith, a...
JFK-PLOT SUSPECT A DOLT: ATT'Y
The former cargo worker charged with trying to turn JFK Airport into a firebomb is no mastermind, his lawyer said yesterday in court. Russell Defreitas, 65, can't read or write...
'DWI SLAY' COP TESTIMONY
The rookie NYPD cop charged with DWI and manslaughter in the drunken crash that killed her fellow probie tearfully told a cop who came to her rescue that she used...
GALL-STAR IN A FANTASY LEAGUE
The con man who's been posing as former Yankees pitcher Steve Karsay was in a fantasy league of his own, authorities said yesterday. Shortly after being nabbed for skipping out...
CHORUS LINE
Get ready to sing "Happy Birthday" to Francisco NuÑez's Young People's Chorus of New York City. NuÑez, who two years ago won a Liberty "Ambassador" Medal for founding the choir...
PRAYER & FEAR AS EVIL STRIKES CONN. 'BURBS
The brutal triple murder in the affluent Connecticut suburb of Cheshire last week has sent a shiver of fear through the quaint town as horrified neighbors take measures to stop...
CITY-WORKER DUO BUSTED
A firefighter and a sanitation worker were busted yesterday after they went on a drunken rampage in Queens, trashing parked vehicles, beating a man and snatching his chain, authorities said....
JUDGE OKS HATE RAP IN 'GAY SLAY'
Three young men accused of luring a gay man to a stretch of beach near the Belt Parkway, then robbing him and chasing him to his death on the highway...
SANITMAN IN MURDER-FOR-HIRE BID: FEDS
A city sanitation worker who moonlights as a car dealer was busted in a murder-for-hire scheme after he tried to fatally trash a rival salesman, the feds charged yesterday. Matthew...
REF SHOT CLOCK
The wife of disgraced NBA referee Tim Donaghy says "it's going to be a while" before he travels to Brooklyn, where he is expected to plead guilty to federal crimes...
CRUISER A BRUISER FOR GRAMPS
An elderly Queens man was injured yesterday when he tripped over his flip-flops and flew head first into a passing police car in Chinatown. Tung Hung, 77, was on the...
ENVIRO COP GETS BROOMED
The chief of the city's Department of Environmental Protection police was booted last week because officials believe he deployed too many cops to help in an attack on a state...
SHIP SLAMS HUDSON PIER
A cruise ship loaded with thousands of passengers crashed into a Hudson River pier yesterday as it returned to Manhattan "The boat just kept on going," said Fred Raley, who...
HERO KICKED OPEN DOOR & RESCUED KIDS
MINNEAPOLIS - When the Interstate 35W bridge plunged into the Mississippi, everybody on an endangered school bus froze in their seats - except Jeremy Hernandez. "Jeremy just got up and...
VID CAPTURES PLUNGE HORROR
Chilling images of the I-35W bridge's horrific demise in Minneapolis were captured by a government video camera placed on the north side of the span and released to the public...
KIN ANGUISH AT COLLAPSE
MINNEAPOLIS - Minutes before the horrific I-35W bridge collapse, teenager Jessica Engebretson got a call from her mother, Sherry. "She called the house and said, 'I'll be home soon,' "...
BASEBALL BLESSES STUBHUB TO FEED FANS' TIX FIX
The fans have spoken. Confronted with an overwhelming number of ticket holders and buyers turning to online scalping, Major League Baseball and ticket-re selling Web site Stub Hub.com yesterday an...
EDWARDS IN A BIZ HATE & $WITCH
WASHINGTON - John Edwards, who yesterday demanded Democratic candidates return any campaign donations from Rupert Murdoch and News Corp., himself earned at least $800,000 for a book published by one...
WOULD YOU USE NUKES?
Barack Obama stumbled badly yesterday on a question about whether he'd use nuclear weapons in Afghanistan and Pakistan to fight terrorists - first saying he wouldn't do so "under any...
MATTEL TO CHINA: GET LEAD OUT!
Mattel apologized to its customers yesterday after announcing the recall of nearly 1 million toys that contain lead paint - the latest problem with Chinese imports. Some 967,000 toys -...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
The BronxPolice yesterday were searching for a suspect who allegedly slashed a man in the neck in a Melrose apartment building. Pedro Luciano , 48, who is 5-foot-6 and 150...
SPINOUT ON DEM LEFT TURN
WASHINGTON - Dancing to the tune of the loonies in their party, the Democratic presidential candidates are now in danger of marching off stage left and suffering self-inflicted wounds that...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Thu.: 432; Lucky Sum: 9 / Midday Win-4 Thu.: 6595; Lucky Sum: 25 / Evening Nos. Thu.: 547; Lucky Sum: 16 / Evening Win-4 Thu.: 3748;...
SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE
"All I can say is this: What I have noticed about Albany over the last 35 years is that either everybody is a lawyer or has a lawyer or is...
SPITZER STICKS BY WELFARE REFORM
An embattled Gov. Spitzer got one right Wednesday in vetoing a pernicious bit of mischief by the Legislature that would have put New York's hugely successful welfare reforms at grave...
RED MEAT FOR MOONBATS
Netroots, moonbats and other loopy-left types descend on Chicago this weekend for the annual Kos Convention - a Bush-Bash-a-thon of the first order and overall excoriation of all things un-"progressive."...
TROOPS & CRIMES
THE media love to trash our troops. Every crime alleged to have been committed by a soldier or Marine in Iraq is headlined until it seems that those in uniform...
ENSURING IT DOESN'T HAPPEN HERE
THE deadly collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis offers a stunning illustration of the fragility of decades-old concrete and steel. Such infrastructure is everywhere; those who use it...
FIDDLING AS QAEDA PLOTS
RIGHT now, a terrorist in Pakistan is talking to a terrorist in Afghanistan about a plot to kill innocent Americans. But because that call is routed through America, intelligence officials...
THANKS, BARACK
SEN. Barack Obama performed an immense service on Wednesday by delivering a speech on terrorism in which he basically promised that, as president, he would invade Pakistan. Now, the substance...
A BUNGLED BERGMAN BASH
THE ISSUE: John Podhoretz's review of the life and legacy of the late director Ingmar Bergman. I respectfully disagree with John Podhoretz's analysis of the career of the late Ingmar...
THE CHANCELLOR'S GRADE: INCOMPLETE & SUB-PAR
THE ISSUE: A review of Joel Klein's performance upon his 5th anniversary as schools chancellor. Your editorial praises Chancellor Joel Klein for bringing reforms and stability to the public-school system...
GOING GLOBAL
The continuing meltdown in the U.S. subprime mortgage market is forcing government finance ministers and regulators in Europe to scramble to prevent financial crises across the globe. In Europe, Germany...
CREDIT CRISIS KILLS TWO MORE MORTGAGE BIGS
The bankruptcy hammer came crashing down on two more mortgage giants caught in the widening credit crisis as regulators raised more warning alarms yesterday. The latest casualty, American Home Mortgage,...
PEACE AT VIACOM
Is the Sumner of discontent at Viacom over? Despite the very public battle between the media giant's chief Sumner Redstone and his daughter Shari, the two toasted Viacom's success at...
BILLBOARD FORMULA IS GETTING DIGITAL
Music industry bible Billboard is changing the formula it uses to define hit songs to include tunes listened to and videos watched online at Yahoo! and AOL. A revamped version...
MOVIE DIVISION IS QUARTER'S SILVER LINING
Boffo box office results for Paramount's - make that DreamWorks' - "Shrek the Third," "Blades of Glory" and "Disturbia," helped power a 13 percent increase in Viacom's second quarter revenues....
VOLATILITY INDEX
Brace yourselves for another session on the Dow Jones Terror Ride. The stock market has soared and plunged at a rate that even the most sophisticated and risk-tolerant investor finds...
RIGHTING THE SHIP
Frank Blake took the reins of Home Depot in January as the antidote to his dictatorial, highly-paid predecessor, promising to return the retailer to its roots of selling hammers, nails...
ACTOR'S DOGS MAULED, KILLED CARETAKER: COPS
Actor Ving Rhames' two bull mastiff dogs mauled his caretaker to death in the front yard of his L.A. home, the L.A. Times reported. The man, who was not immediately...
3 ARRESTED AFTER SUB FOUND IN RED HOOK
NEW YORK - A man inside a replica of a U.S. Revolutionary War submarine was arrested Friday after police found the strange-looking vessel partly submerged in a security zone near...
CLASSIC COMEBACK
SARATOGA SPRINGS - When Richard III cried "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!" he might have meant Shakespeare, the critter. In inspirational comeback going mile on turf...
SPORTS SHORTS
BASEBALL: Marlins righty needs surgery Marlins right-hander Josh Johnson will require season-ending arm surgery and might miss the 2008 season. Surgery today will determine how long he'll be sidelined, Marlins...
HONDO GOES TO HARVARD
That's it; Guthrie is out of the stable. Hondo came up empty again with the Oriole portsider yesterday, flop ping in Fenway to increase the debt to 505 weavers. CORRECTION:...
STERN TEST IN STORE FOR MISS MACY SUE
SARATOGA SPRINGS - The focus falls on female sprinters the next two days at the Old Spa, with five fillies and mares dashing six furlongs this afternoon in the Grade...
SHOWDOWN AT SARATOGA
Post handicappers John DaSilva, Ed Fountaine and Vic Cangialosi challenge former champion steeplechase jockey, OTB backstretch insider and co-publisher of the Saratoga Special, Sean Clancy, as they battle for bragging...
TUNA, BIG COW BASS MOO-VE IN
THE good news this past week was the tuna action at the Continental Shelf for the offshore runners and some big cow bass for the inshore crowd. The Gulfstream eddies...
HOLYFIELD ALIVE FOR NO. 5
THREE years after being suspended by the New York State Athletic Commission for a string of poor performances, Evander Holyfield has signed to fight for a fifth heavyweight title. Don't...
MICKELSON WILL PLAY W'CHESTER
Phil Mickelson has officially committed to play the Barclays tournament, which starts Aug. 23 at Westchester Country Club. The 37-year-old left-hander already had qualified for the 144-player field and secured...
ESPN WISING UP TO MORGAN'S ACT
MOST of us fully understand by now that ESPN has become a "Proceed At Your Own Risk" deal. But still, assigning Joe Morgan to be America's lead baseball analyst ....
WAIT OF THE WORLD
LOS ANGELES - One voice from the loge section of Dodger Stadium symbolized the cloud that hovers over Barry Bonds' pursuit of Hank Aaron's career home-run record. "We don't hate...
WILLIE WILL ARRIVE AFTER TIE
LOS ANGELES - There has been one notable absence during Barry Bonds' pursuit of Hank Aaron and the legion of people following it - Bonds' godfather, Willie Mays. Mays has...
SUMMER OF '77
Remember the sizzling, scintillating summer of 1977 when Billy Martin's Yankees stormed past the Red Sox and went on to capture their first World Championship in 15 years by beating...
COACH HOPES STRAHAN GETS MESSAGE: 'COME BACK'
ALBANY - Giants defensive line coach Mike Waufle is in contact often - very often - with Michael Strahan. Via text message. The message is always the same: "Come back."...
ROUGH CORNERS
ALBANY - Play after play, the ball was flung in the direction of Aaron Ross, the Giants first-round draft pick, a cornerback who surely will have better days. First, Jared...
JET AHEAD
Chad Pennington sat back in a chair on the edge of the field immediately after yesterday's grueling morning training camp practice that ran nearly three hours. His face was lined...
ALL ABOUT THE GREEN
AS of yesterday, Darrelle Revis, the Jets' holdout top draft pick, had missed seven days of training camp practices with no end in sight to what has become an unnecessary...
MANGINI'S LONG PRACTICES KEEP HEAT ON JETS
Eric Mangini turned up the heat on his players on one of the hottest days of the year. Mangini, welcoming the sweltering, mid-90s heat to help his team focus, ran...
LIBS CLOSE OUT A CLOSE GAME
The Liberty's 71-66 victory last night over Minnesota did more than just snap a seven-game losing streak, the second-longest in team history. It showed the Liberty haven't given up on...
AN INSIDE JOB
MILWAUKEE - The emotion Moises Alou had for Damion Easley bordered on sarcastic sympathy. Alou scored ahead of Easley on the right-fielder's sixth-inning inside-the-park homer yesterday. But Alou needed to...
LAWRENCE WINS IN MET DEBUT
MILWAUKEE - While there were some shaky moments, Brian Lawrence certainly offered a respectable outing yesterday. The 31-year-old righty was back in the majors for the first time since Sept....
PEDRO POSITIVE
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. - Pedro Martinez kept returning to the mound for one more inning, to the point you wondered if security might have to forcibly remove the right-hander...
NETS OPEN WITH BULLS
The Nets start 2007-08 the way they finished 2006-07 - at home against the Bulls. The Nets begin their season on Halloween night, Oct. 31, initiating a stretch that has...
HILL RETURNS WITH NETS
You can go home. Twice. Brian Hill, an East Orange, N.J., product with more than 20 NBA coaching years on his side, is returning to the Nets for a second...
BAD LUCK & JUST BAD
After going homerless again yesterday, Alex Rodriguez was asked how long it had seemed since he hit his last one. "A week," said Rodriguez, referring to career blast No. 499...
KYLE DECLINE CONTINUES
Kyle Farnsworth was booed loudly yesterday when he entered the game to start the eighth inning. That's what happens when a pitcher has been as ineffective as Farnsworth has been...
JETER ON WINNING AL EAST: 'I LIKE OUR CHANCES'
After a 13-9 loss to the Chicago White Sox yesterday that dropped the Yankees eight games behind the division-leading Red Sox, captain Derek Jeter was conceding nothing. "[When people ask]...
A BIG INNING, A BIGGER LOSS
Jeff Karstens got the loss, but Roger Clemens should get the blame. And Kyle Farnsworth? He should just go away. While the Yankees were knocking the tar out of the...
ROCKET TO BLAME FOR HIS WALK OF SHAME
ROGER Clemens doesn't need the money, only apparently the gratification that he is still worth a lot of it. Having won two rings in his previous incarnation in The Bronx,...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Las Vegas auto dealer Dan Towbin won't let down Old Glory, refusing a city order to remove a 30-by-60-foot American flag that flies over his business. The city council says...
'Flash' back
SCI FI went much further than digging up a Members Only jacket in its attempt to lure fans of the old comic/TV show/cult movie. It pulled a âGalacticaâ on casting:...