August 27, 2007
A few nuggets
No huge news today yet but plenty of small updates. Here's the rundown:-Paul Lo Duca is off the DL and playing. Not only did he say he's at full strength,...
Hollywood's Fuzzy Math
This is the first summer that Hollywood has ever sold $400 million worth of tickets, but because of rapidly rising prices it doesn't follow that a record number of people...
Deal of the Day
Anoraks have attacked, and they're still around for the 07/08 fall and winter seasons.This Saranac Jacket by NY based Spiewak fuses a bit of element-braving rugged sensibilities with some street...
If you can't get Gates - wait!
You can count on one finger how many tight ends should be taken before you fill your starting key starting spots. That's one for the entire league.Antonio Gates is the...
Rooney's Racist Remarks
Andy Rooney, "60 Minutes" resident grump, has apologized for what some people are calling racist remarks he published in a syndicated newspaper column last week. Rooney, who hates major league...
THOUGHTS ON ABREU, DUNCAN AND FARNSWORTH
At this point it is all but obvious the Yankees will pick up Bobby Abreuâs $16 million option for 2008 or possibly even rework a contact for two or three...
'HSM2' Steals the Show
"High School Musical 2" roared on last night at the "Teen Choice Awards" on Fox. The film snared a "surfboard" the awards show's coveted trophy, while stars Zac Efron was...
Life Imitates Art?
Update: After Wilson's hospitalization was confirmed, the actor issued this cryptic statement from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center: "I respectfully ask that the media allow me to receive care and heal in...
And Then Jason Nelson Melted My Brain With His Flash Game
Everything was going fine at the end of my overnight shift until I got an email from Jason Nelson suggesting I check out his art experiment/ platforming game. I noticed...
UPDATE: Auctioning the A380
Comin' atcha, live: You too could be on board the A380 inaugural!/photo by Andrew HuntWant in on the inaugural run (Oct 25 & 26) of the biggest plane ever? Singapore...
VICE PRESIDENTS
Discussing how office culture has changed since he started in business in 1962, legendary ad man Jerry Della Feminia tell the story of a colleague who used to visit his...
TOP DRAW!
IF you're on the beach and you see a Spider-Man towel thrown on the sand, it was probably designed by James Jacobson. In 14 years as a production designer for...
60 SECONDS WITH SKIP YOWELL
You write in your new book, "The Hippie Guide to Climbing the Corporate Ladder and Other Mountains," that "while you pursue your own dreams, it's equally important to support the...
GO TO GREG
Q. During my youth, I was what you would call a knucklehead. I did some prison time. Now I'm 43, and feel that I'm too old to go back to...
BEAUTY UNDER GLASS
ABOUT 4,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, some masochistic visionary had the crazy idea of blowing into a hollow metal pole, on the other end of which was affixed a dan...
HIGH SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL
BECCA ELENA BATTINO Wannabe cheerleader who enjoys making funny faces at herself in the mirror and considers herself an "old soul" Age: 16 Hood: Bayside, Queens School: Benjamin N. Cardozo...
SOME BLOODY BUSINESS,THEN OFF TO BATTLE
WHEN a playwright like Charles L. Mee gets hold of one of the Greek classics, rest assured the result is unlike anything seen in ancient amphitheaters. "Iphigenia 2.0," his reworking...
FIRST AND GOAL
"Friday Night Lights" may be the first TV show to offer viewers a money-back guarantee. The favorite new show of the intellectual set is putting out its first season DVD...
FLYIN' RYAN
IN the world of reality TV, the general rule seems to be to keep "reality" as fake as possible, create as many ridiculous situations as possible, be sure that the...
'KID NATION' IN A CORNER
CBS is reeling under an onslaught of bad public ity over its new reality show, "Kid Nation." Over the weekend, questions were flying over whether the pounding the network has...
MORIARTY: I LIKE FRED
ORIGINAL "Law & Order" star Michael Moriarty is endorsing Fred Thompson for president, according to reports. The odd-ball actor who played Ben Stone, the first assistant DA, on the hit...
CUBAN 'DANCE' FEVER
BILLIONAIRE Mark Cuban is reportedly joining the cast of the next "Dancing with the Stars." E! Entertainment's Web site reports that Cuban - who made shiploads of dough in the...
PHILLY GOES 'IDOL' WILD
THE final "American Idol" audition of the new season is threatening to overwhelm the City of Brotherly Love. Nearly 13,000 singers - three times the usual number - registered in...
PULSE SALES
VALENTINO, MISSONI 123 W. 18th St., 4th floor, between Sixth and Seventh avenues; no phone Sale: Aug. 29, 30. Wed., 9:30 a.m.-7 p.m./Thu., 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Outerwear, cocktail and evening...
KIN AWAIT ANSWERS ON '06 BRONX BLAZE
A year after a Bronx electrical fire claimed the lives of firefighter Michael Reilly and FDNY Lt. Howard Carpluk, family members are still waiting for answers on how and why...
FAMILIES SHIELD-ED BY 'BOSS'
The family of fallen firefighter Joseph Graffagnino will join an anguished fraternity of those served by the 25-year-old Silver Shield Foundation. The organization, founded by Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, provides...
RESPIRATION DATE
The NYPD has recalled an estimated 30,000 emergency devices designed to help cops breathe after a terrorist blast, because the manufacturer warned they might be defective, The Post has learned....
FATAL SNUB OF 2005 PLAN
A smoking-gun FDNY memo about the Deutsche Bank building detailed a solid plan for fighting a blaze in the toxic skyscraper as far back as 2005, but the advice was...
PENSION $TINK HAS ANOTHER LINK
ALBANY - A Texas-based hedge fund that received $100 million in New York state pension investments paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in "referral fees" as part of the deal...
POSTAL 'STAIR'-DOWN
Weeks after a gutsy granny complained that the iconic Eighth Avenue post office was all but off limits to the disabled on weekends, the U.S. Postal Service has seen the...
CITY SUED FOR DEATH ON SUBWAY
A crowded subway platform and hundreds of aggressive commuters "pushing and shoving" their way on and off trains was a deadly combination for a 63-year-old woman who fell to the...
'SPIDEY' FAN HELD IN HEIST
A "Spider-Man" fan was busted last night for allegedly breaking into the swanky Soho Grand suite of the superhero's celluloid gal pal, Kirsten Dunst, and helping a buddy rob her...
WASH. HTS. 'NILE' SPRAY
The city Heath Department will begin spraying pesticide in Washington Heights today in a bid to hold off the West Nile virus, which turned up in Queens mosquitoes a month...
A NEW CON ED SHOCK
Be careful where you put your hands - tests found stray voltage five times more often on New York City street-light poles than on those checked by upstate utilities, according...
POST ARTIST'S DAY OF GIOIA
Post artist Ana Gioia was happily surprised yesterday when she accidentally learned she had won two awards from the New York State Associated Press Association for her informational graphics. "I...
SCHUMER VENTS HIS RATE RAGE
Despite the attention drawn to the nation's foreclosure crisis, unscrupulous mortgage brokers continue to do business as usual, an angry Sen. Charles Schumer said yesterday. Brandishing a broker's newspaper advertisement,...
BIKER CRASHES INTO TREE
A man riding his friend's motorcycle without a proper license - or a helmet - slammed into a tree inside a Queens park last night and suffered a massive head...
CRASH HEROES
Two of New York's Strongest proved their might when they bashed a sunroof off an overturned SUV and rescued a woman and her toddler trapped inside. Sanitation workers Michael Abatantuno,...
JUST 'TOO KIND'
A loving Brooklyn minister with a soft spot for hard-luck cases carried her concern for her fellow man to an extreme when she married one of her "projects," a violent...
HIGH-SCI KIDS
Two brainy girls from a Harlem school have outsmarted thousands of teens from around the country, making it to the semifinals of an exclusive science competition. Scarlett Jimenez and Sarah...
LAURA NIXES AUSSIE VISIT
WASHINGTON - First Lady Laura Bush is canceling a trip Down Under because she's under the weather. She had planned to fly to Sydney early next month to attend the...
U.S. TROOPS JUST MISSED OSAMA IN '04
U.S. troops along the Afghan-Pakistan border were so close to Osama bin Laden's lair in late 2004 that his henchmen nearly killed the al Qaeda leader to keep him from...
GREECE FIRES RULED ARSONS
The fast-moving wildfires that have torn through Greece - reaching the ancient city of Olympia and killing 11 people - appear to be the work of arsonists, authorities said yesterday...
WHAT IN 'TAR' NATION
China's toys are made with poisonous paint, its pet food and toothpaste have been contaminated, and its cough medicine has proven deadly - but at least its bogus bootleg cigarettes...
2 'BAD' AT BOX OFFICE
Audiences are McLovin' "Superbad." "Superbad" took the box-office title for the second straight weekend, grossing $18 million over the past three days to bring its total haul to $68.6 million....
DIRTY REF'S 'SIDELINE' GAL EYED BY FEDS
Married ex-NBA referee Tim Donaghy has a busty, blond gal pal in Arizona, and federal investigators want to speak to her as a part of their probe of his illicit...
BAGHDAD BIG GIVES HILL HELL
WASHINGTON - Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki took an intercontinental swipe at Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, saying she and other American critics should lay off attacks on his government, which...
CLINTON CAMP TURNS FAN INTO OBAMA MAN
A former "die-hard" backer of Hillary Rodham Clinton says he switched his allegiance to Barack Obama after spending three weeks volunteering for the former first lady's Iowa office, and witnessing...
POLS POUR INTO NEW ORLEANS
Sen. Barack Obama said yesterday the nation can't fail New Orleans again, and that the country has a "collective responsibility" to lift up the storm-ravaged city. "The words 'never again'...
SURF-TURF WAR
It's a totally gnarly dispute - pitting surfer dudes vs. surf fishermen. And the ticketing of a surfing legend's fiancée for illegal wave riding on the north side of Montauk...
OWEN IN 'HOSPITAL' MYSTERY
Actor Owen Wilson was hospitalized yesterday afternoon in serious condition after an "incident" at his Santa Monica home, tabloid reports said yesterday. The "Wedding Crashers" star was taken to St....
ODD FAMILY REUNION
It'll be a family affair in a Vegas courthouse this week for "mob cop" Louis Eppolito. The beefy rogue detective, convicted in a string of New York mob-ordered hits, was...
KATRINA DOCTOR: DEATH RX HELPED
A prominent surgeon who was accused of murdering nine New Orleans hospital patients after Hurricane Katrina knew the morphine she gave them might kill them - but said "what we...
IN-SURGE-ENCY
WASHINGTON - President Bush's troop surge in Iraq will have to wind down because forces are stretched too thin to keep quelling the violence there, lawmakers from both parties said...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
MANHATTAN Three muggers beat and kicked a man on the Lower East Side in broad daylight, authorities said yesterday. Robert Tinsley, 31, Enrique Trinidad, 39, and Neftali Trinidad, 40, accosted...
HOW MARINES PULLED FALLUJAH OUT OF HELL
FALLUJAH, Iraq - Fallujah and the Marines have some history. In 2004, one savage battle ended when the Marines were pulled out for political reasons. Later that year, they had...
ELIOT'S STAFF IN DARK
Gov. Spitzer and a handful of aides have erected a "fierce firewall" of secrecy that has denied other members of his staff details of the explosive dirty-tricks scandal, administration insiders...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sun.: 664; Lucky Sum: 16 / Midday Win-4 Sun.: 7372; Lucky Sum: 19 / Evening Nos. Sun.: 626; Lucky Sum: 14 / Evening Win- 4 Sun.:...
LESSONS FROM NEWARK
Finally, some sense from New Jersey's criminal-justice system. State Attorney General Anne Milgram last week ordered all local police jurisdictions to alert federal authorities when they believe any individual under...
IT'S REALLY NOT EASY BEING GREEN
Mayor Bloomberg may need to tinker with his plan to save the planet from global warming, according to a provocative news report from London. To combat climate change, Mayor Mike's...
ENOUGH WITH THE STUDIES
Here's an idea so lame it could have only come from the City Council: Councilman (and Comptroller candidate) David Weprin (D-Queens) wants a commission to assess the city's infrastructure. Considering...
BEAR CHOOSES CHILL
DESPITE consistent Kremlin claims that Moscow isn't trying to resurrect the Cold War, a landslide of Soviet-style actions over the last few weeks is doing a pretty darn good job...
COLOMBIA CLEANS: CREDIT THE DEMS
THE forced resignation two weeks ago under pressure from President Alvaro Uribe of three prominent officers accused of drug trafficking is not likely to end the shakeup in Colombia's army...
DON'T LET THE GOV SLIDE
SOME signs last week suggest that Gov. Spitzer may skate past charges that he knew of his office's plot to smear Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno. That he'll avoid having...
BANK ON A BLAME GAME FOLLOWING A TRAGEDY
Even though it might be true that delaying the demolition of the Deutsche Bank building might affect the WTC site as a whole, it is important that all safety precautions...
SNAGGING IMUS
Mel Karmazin taught Farid Suleman well - so well, in fact, that the Citadel Communications CEO's move to bring Don Imus back to the airwaves is torn straight from the...
MUCH-DELAYED HOME DEPOT DEAL IS DONE
Retailing giant Home Depot has finally reached an agreement to sell its professional supply business to a trio of private equity firms for about $8.5 billion after over two weeks...
MANHATTAN GETS TASTE OF REAL ESTATE CRUNCH
The credit crunch that's been roiling the stock market is now starting to put a chill on Manhattan's red-hot commercial rental market. The potential for crisis is particularly acute because...
MONEY DOES TALK
Baby, it's wild out there - for nest-egg builders, that is - but the personal-finance magazines seem to be out of touch. They're concentrating on how to get and stay...
CHILL FACTOR
Top music downloads 1. Beautiful Girls, Sean Kingston 2. Bartender, T-pain 3. Big Girls Don't Cry, Fergie 4. Buy You a Drink, T-pain 5. Make Me Better, Fabolous 6. Big...
VICK SET TO PLEAD GUILTY TODAY IN DOGFIGHTING CASE
RICHMOND, Va. -- His NFL career already in tatters, Michael Vick must now wait to find out the full impact of his legal troubles. The Atlanta Falcons quarterback was expected...
DELAY OF GAME
WHAT once would have been out of the question as a matter of common sense and common decency has happened once again. Friday's Yanks-Tigers game began at 11:06 p.m., after...
PERSISTENCE WAS THE KEY FOR STRICKER
MAYBE all the hype sur rounding the FedEx Cup added an extra buzz during the first three days of The Barclays as we tried to figure out point standings, playoffs...
CALC FALLS SHORT WITH 2 PUTTERS
The wild, two-putter strategy proved a two-edged sword. Mark Calcavecchia carried two flat clubs - one short, one long - in his bag during The Barclays, and while they combined...
IT'S ABOUT TIME
Richard Williams' daughters, Serena and Venus, will play back-to-back first-round matches as a symbolic part of tonight's 50th anniversary tribute to Althea Gibson winning the U.S. Open. However, the outspoken...
FEDERER'S NEW FOIL
Novak Djokovic is the top jokester on the ATP tour. He does a slew of hilarious impressions of the world's top tennis players, their oncourt mannerisms, captured on YouTube. The...
RODDICK HOPES FOR RUN LIKE IN '06
As dominant as Roger Federer is in the world of tennis, more specifically at the U.S. Open, the fact that Andy Roddick was the last player to win in Queens...
TIGER FALLS TO 4TH IN STANDINGS
The after-effect of the first FedEx Cup playoff event, The Barclays, has left an intriguing threesome for the second tournament - this week's Deutsche Bank outside of Boston. With the...
STRICKER STRIKES BACK
Sometimes that cliché "it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy" fits so perfectly. The Barclays yesterday landed the right champion when Steve Stricker captured the first FedEx Cup playoff...
SPORTS SHORTS
GOLF: Ochoa snags third straight tourney In Portland, Ore., Lorena Ochoa won her third straight LPGA title with a five-stroke victory in the Safeway Classic yesterday. Ochoa shot a 71...
MARYFIELD CAPTURES BALLERINA
SARATOGA SPRINGS - It was a successful trip here for West Coast-based Maryfield, as she caught Baroness Thatcher at the last jump to win the Grade 1, $250,000 Ballerina Stakes...
NAFZGER MULLS 'STREET' FUTURE
SARATOGA SPRINGS - As the skies cleared here after an evening of celebrations and storms, trainer Carl Nafzger was back at Barn 6 yesterday, getting his Kentucky Derby and now...
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...
HONDO'S IN THE 'ZONA
The Native Americans gave Chief Wahoo something to smile about yesterday as they surged past the Roy als to boost Hondo's earnings to 160 brohamers. Tonight, Mr. Aitch is Livan...
TUCK ROLLS ON BORROWED TIME
Based purely on playing time, Justin Tuck stands the most to lose with the impending arrival of Michael Strahan, yet it is Tuck who is exuberantly trumpeting Strahan's return. Without...
GIANTS LOOK FOR KICK START
Based on the performances of Lawrence Tynes and Josh Huston in Saturday night's 20-12 preseason loss to the Jets, it certainly is possible the Giants do not yet have their...
JETS NEED FIX AT LEFT GUARD, FAST
ERIC Mangini and Mike Tannenbaum need to find a Pete Kendall, and fast. Someone who has been through the NFL wars, someone smart and tough who has been there and...
'BOOMER' BUSTS SLOPPY METS
Do the initials "J.M." stand for John Maine or Just Mediocre? After another lackluster performance by the Mets right-hander last night, the temptation is to choose the latter. Though Maine...
HIRED GUN WELLS HAUNTS SHEA
YOU knew it was not going to be the Mets' night when David Wells started a fifth-inning rally by beating out a bunt single to third. Yes, there was a...
AMAZIN' BLUNDER ON BASES
The Mets are one of the most dangerous and aggressive baserunning team in baseball, but last night they got a little too aggressive. They had a golden opportunity to get...
BELTRAN NOT WORRIED
The time has come for the Mets to deliver an NL East knockout punch. After weeks of keeping the Phillies and Braves a little too close in the rear-view mirror,...
INSIDE JOB HITS YANKS HARD
DETROIT - A two-week dance through the elite gardens of the American League was supposed to tell us a lot about the Yankees. Four games against the Tigers in The...
AN UNPREDICTABLE PHIL-ING
DETROIT - The Yankees have both the oldest and youngest starters in the AL, and that is a problem. At 44, Roger Clemens is unpredictable. He feels good and pitches...
YANKS' TOP PICK TO HAVE SURGERY
DETROIT - Andrew Brackman, the Yankees' first-round pick in the June draft, has decided his right elbow will be better served by undergoing Tommy John surgery, according to agent Scott...
SUMMER OF '77
THE Yankees are busting up the AL East race faster than you can say Mick the Quick. Spotting the talented Texas Rangers a 5-1 lead, the Yankees rallied for five...
JETER SITS OUT
DETROIT - When Derek Jeter didn't fight Joe Torre's decision to rest him yesterday, it was a clear indication Jeter's body wasn't right. Since Jeter didn't start last Sunday and...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Hey, buddy, keep your tip. Damon Armagost, of Smyrna, Tenn., was arrested for handing out fake hundred-dollar bills at a Nashville strip club. Armagost, who pleaded guilty and will be...