October 3, 2007
Zach back and on track
By MARC BERMANCHARLESTON - Zach Randolph made it back from Indy for the morning and night sessions, though his grandmother is gravely ill. That was a very good sign of...
Some must-see fantasy TV
It's going to be an exciting season this year on Fantasy Tracker Network Television. Here's a look at some shows premiering this fall on FTN-TV. Daunte Culpepper stars in "Bionic...
"Need for Speed Pro Street" gets Junkie
Back in 2002, Junkie XL became a household name amongst people that listen to the radio with his remix of Elvis' song, "A Little Less Conversation." Now he's back with...
New "Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock" songs announced
BOOM. There you go.-Same Old Song and Dance (by Aerosmith)-Helicopter (by Bloc Party)-Stricken (by Disturbed)-Monsters (by Matchbook Romance)-Before I Forget (by Slipknot)-Kool Thing (by Sonic Youth)-When You Were Young (by...
Deal of the Day
The Sisters of Mercy got me at age five in kindergarten, and I haven't been able to resist plaid every since. Tartan duvets, skirts, shirts, and dresses.It's kind of an...
Starr Report
MSNBC's Chris Matthews (right) is celebrating 10 years of "Hardball" tomorrow with a shindig in Washington - and the publication of his fifth book, "Life's a Campaign," which hit bookstores...
YANKS VS. INDIAN THOUGHTS
My hunch is a lot of the Yankee-Indian ALDS will come down to how the Yankee lefty hitters do, especially against the Indians lefty ace C.C. Sabathia, and lefty set-up...
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Pilfered Laptops
A week after an extra on Steven Spielberg's still-shooting "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'' delivered a string of spoilers to an Oklahoma newspaper, somebody broke into...
DINNER W/VU
DON'T have the 15 large it takes to dine in Lady Liberty's shadow? You can at least bask in torchy glow on these dinner cruises. Bateaux: Three hours of cruising...
TIMELY TOPICS IN BARR EXAM
HANG in there, Britney - help is on the way. Roseanne Barr's thinking of giving you a ring. "I don't really care about people who are millionaires and stuff, but...
ALLOW TIME FOR NEW 'FORBIDDEN' EDITION
IT'S hard to express just how much jaded theatergoers look forward to "Forbidden Broadway" every season. Gerard Alessandrini's scathing yet affectionate revue spoofing the Great White Way opened its 25th...
RETURN OF 'GYPSY'
IF you missed director Arthur Lau rents' thrilling revival of "Gypsy" at City Center this past summer (and if you did, you should still be kicking yourself), all may not...
STARR REPORT
Give him a shout-out MSNBC's Chris Matthews is celebrating 10 years of "Hardball" tomorrow with a shindig in Washington - and the publication of his fifth book, "Life's a Campaign,"...
IT'S A CAVE-IN!
I STAND corrected. A few weeks ago, in an earlier column, I wrote an impassioned plea for readers to keep an open mind about the ABC sitcom "Cavemen," which was...
'SUPERNANNY' SLIPS
THE efforts of "Super nanny" Jo Frost have gone up in flames - literally. Mom Susan Young and her five young sons were left homeless Monday in Witham, England after...
NO 'HERO' THIS YEAR
TEN days into the new TV season and the verdict is . . . no instant turkeys. But no new "Heroes," either. Last year, the debut of "Heroes" - the...
TOUCH AND GO
DEAD is alive. Again. This time it's called "Pushing Daisies," and it's ABC's turn to cash in on the wonderful, fun life of corpses. Ever notice that at least one...
DOC BRINGS ABORTION CONTROVERSY TO LIFE
A great abortion documentary might leave you guessing which side of the debate the director was on. "Lake of Fire" is not that film, but it comes somewhat close. Shot...
GIVE US YOUR HUNGRY...
ACTUALLY, "hungry" didn't make it into Emma Lazarus' "New Colossus," but we can't imagine Lady Liberty would mind a few fans picnicking at her feet. After all, they did pay...
YOU CAN GO ROME AGAIN
WITH Columbus Day around the corner, what's the culinary buzz all about? Vegetarian menus. Asian noodle bars. "Molecular" desserts. But what are New Yorkers actually eating in restaurants? Italian -...
A RESTAURANT TO BANK ON
HERE'S more good news for the Italian restaurant scene: After a year of grim uncertainty and dire predictions, San Domenico and its landlord at 240 Central Park South are working...
IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
A Venus-Pluto aspect on your birthday will bring exciting social and travel opportunities over the next 12 months and no one will need to tell you to take advantage of...
BARGAIN HUNTING
Canada's mighty dollar is on its biggest bargain hunt ever - a $10.7 billion shopping spree to buy Commerce Bank in the wake of its founder's ouster, plus the grab...
SALLIE MAE I? FLOWERS CUTTING OFFER
The battle for Sallie Mae took another twist yesterday after billionaire J. Christopher Flowers lowered his $25 billion offer for the nation's largest student loan provider. In an effort to...
CUPBOARD IS EMPTY FOR RETURNING HIT TV SHOWS
With few exceptions, many returning TV shows have premiered to sharply lower ratings this fall. It's not unusual for older shows, especially those that generated a lot of early buzz,...
HOME SALES SLIDE
In a new blow to optimists, the housing recession is still showing signs of free fall, with potential homebuyers canceling deals in droves during the prime sale month of August....
CRISIS FOR NEW CLASS OF FUNDS
Hedge-fund executives say the next blow to hammer their industry will likely come from a wave of hedge-fund redemptions driven by highly-levered funds that invest in other hedge funds. One...
WELL, HOOP-DE-DO
THE National Basketball Association may be trying to bounce back to the Big Apple. We've learned that the league is scouting locations through Barry Gosin and Moshe Sukenik at Newmark...
FLORIDIANS IN FOR A REAL NEW YORK TREAT
Florida will be a little chillier when Manhattan's legendary celebrity dessert emporium Serendipity 3 brings its famed "Frrrozen" hot chocolate and other confections to Boca Raton. For the first time...
RAY'S PIZZAZZ FADES
THERE are signs of tension at Every Day with Rachael Ray, the magazine that became an overnight success and was hailed as the hottest magazine launch since the early days...
MOST FIND PENSION FUND FISHY
ALBANY - An overwhelming majority of New York voters believes that former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi and his top political consultant, Hank Morris, did something wrong when Morris earned millions...
SPITZ THE PITS IN LATEST POLL
ALBANY - Gov. Spitzer's approval rating has slid to an all-time low, even as 78 percent of New York voters say he should testify under oath in the dirty-tricks scandal,...
TAXI REBELS PLAN STRIKE
Cabbies are gearing up for strike two. The New York Taxi Workers Alliance, the group that called last month's two-day strike over new GPS and credit-card devices, will announce a...
MIKE N I.D. $HOCK
Yo, Jersey - steal from your own billionaire politicians! Two New Jersey men have been busted for trying to swipe big bucks from Mayor Bloomberg in an identity-theft scam, officials...
FANS VENT AT WORMS WHO OWN GARDEN
New Yorkers have faced so much disappointment with their beloved Knicks - but now, as the team and owner James Dolan are forced to fork over $11.6 million for fostering...
$11M KICK IN HARASS
Ain't that a bitch. In a stunning close to a sensational trial, jurors knocked Knick coach Isiah Thomas and Madison Square Garden for sexually harassing and discriminating against a fired...
COCKY KNICKS DROPPED THE BALL: LAWYERS
The New York Knicks and Isiah Thomas failed to take Anucha Browne Sand ers' sexual harassment case against them se riously - a foolish error that has cost them millions...
KNICKS FOCUS ON WINNING, NOT SINNING
Knick players reacted to the Anucha Browne Sanders verdict by supporting their coach, Isiah Thomas, and declaring that fans would forgive him as long as the team wins this season....
N.Y. FANS MAY SAY: 'NO MSG'
The New York Knicks and Madison Square Garden can expect to see declining ticket sales and a loss of advertisers thanks to the embarrassing sexual-harassment scandal, sports marketing pros told...
FRED WILL BE LIFE OF THE PARTY
The state Conservative Party has invited Republican presidential hopeful Fred Thompson to be the featured speaker at its fall bash - a snub to local GOP favorite Rudy Giuliani. Conservative...
THE CHECK'S IN THE MAIL
The latest $400 property-tax rebate checks have been mailed out to city homeowners. The annual rebates started going out Friday to 626,000 small-home owners, including those in condos and co-ops....
TEACHERS HAILED AS POOR KIDS GAIN
New and improved teacher-recruiting efforts are partly responsible for student gains in high-poverty New York City public schools, according to a new report. While more teachers who initially failed their...
H2WOE NOW ON EATERY'S MENU
Mayor Bloomberg is a welcome guest at Vincent Vitello's restaurant in Downtown Brooklyn - but not so the shocking hike in water rates that Hizzoner is considering. Vitello says his...
ISLAM GAINS A 'FOOT'HOLD AT NYU
New York University wants to make its sinks foot-free. As more than a dozen universities and colleges across the country have done, the school is looking to install foot baths...
COP MOURNED
Friends, family and distraught officers filled a Brooklyn funeral home yesterday where a slain city cop was mourned days after being shot to death in her Long Island home. Dozens...
TOP GOPERS 'CULT' FAVORITES
Disgraced GOP operative Roger Stone acted as a middleman between a cult-like upstate group and powerful Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, The Post has learned. Stone was hired...
JOY TO GRIEF OVER QNS. SOLDIER
A GI from Queens, described by his family as an engineering whiz, died in Iraq just days after being offered a six-figure job back home, his family said yesterday. Chirasak...
UNION: PROBE REV. AL
The head of the police detectives union yesterday called for an investigation into payments by the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network to victims of the Sean Bell police shooting....
$LAY-PLOTTERS SPARED DEATH
They callously marked their victims for death, but two men who took out insurance policies on their own relatives and killed them to collect the benefits were spared by a...
DERBY-DAD GIRL'S SEX-DRUG SHOCKER
The druggie daughter of the owner of beloved Kentucky Derby champ Funny Cide snorted lines of cocaine off her newborn's stomach while breast-feeding him, authorities said yesterday. Wendy Knowlton Cook...
SEAGAL'S OUT FOR $$ JUSTICE
Living up to the title of one of his movies, actor Steven Seagal is "Out for Justice" - filing suit in Brooklyn federal court this week against an ex-business partner...
NAN'S GOING, GOING GARB
Couture from the closet of "the world's most famous clotheshorse" was remarkably accessible to the masses as it hit the auction block yesterday. The highest price for a piece of...
'DEADBEAT' HUNT GOES TO PRESS
An unprecedented newspaper ad aimed at catching deadbeat dads was so successful that Westchester County is launching a second round today with a new crop of parents who skipped out...
DRIVER'S 'ED'
Former Mayor Ed Koch - joining a chorus of opposition to Gov. Spitzer's plan to allow illegal aliens to obtain driver's licenses - warned yesterday that the move could make...
NYPD'S BIG VIDEO EYE ON APPLE
The NYPD is set to unveil a hub where officials will monitor feeds from thousands of cameras as part of a planned lower Manhattan security initiative, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly...
DISGRACED JUDGE A LAWYER AGAIN
A former chief judge of the state's highest court, who fell from power in 1992 after harassing his mistress and her daughter, regained his law license yesterday. "I'm delighted," said...
UPSTATE CRASH KILLS B'KLYN COUPLE
A young Brooklyn couple was killed in a horrific crash upstate yesterday when their car veered across a highway median and was slammed by an oncoming vehicle. The couple's 4-month-old...
BREAKING THE ICE
Three brazen thieves stole thousands of dollars worth of jewelry yesterday in a midday smash-and-grab in the Diamond District. The bold crooks snatched a haul worth more than $200,000 from...
PERVY PA CAN NOW GO HOME
The wife still loves him, despite his teen-girl harem. The five kids still love him. And they're all waiting for him with open arms back home in Poughkeepsie. "Lolita Lawyer"...
DETECTIVE DEAL
The detectives union tentatively agreed yesterday to a contract with the city that would boost the salaries of its 5,300 members by nearly 17 percent over four years. The deal,...
CITY MURDERS WAY DOWN
The city had a week last month with just two murders committed, and is on pace for another year with fewer than 600 homicides, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday. The week...
'BLOOD' HUNTED IN B'KLYN SEX-ATTACK NIGHTMARE
Police yesterday identified Deshawn Owens as one of three Bloods members who stormed into a Brooklyn apartment and raped three women, including a mother and her daughter. The brutal attacks...
HAPPY HAGGLING
You may not be Don Corleone - but you can still make an offer that can't be refused. According to a new study by Consumer Reports, the ancient art of...
EASY MONEY: $200 SAVINGS JUST FOR ASKING
The Post found that bargains do abound for consumers in the city - at least for those with the chutzpah to step up and ask for a lower price. At...
BRIT'S 2 BOYS FINALLY HAVE A 'ROLL' MODEL
What a difference a day makes! Sean Preston, 2, and Jayden James, 1, were crying and motoring through a greasy drive-through with train-wreck mom Britney Spears earlier this week. Then...
C-SECTION'S UNKIND CUT
The rising rate of Caesarean deliveries is putting more women and babies at risk when they have a second child, a new study says. Those mothers who try to have...
HAULARY DEFEAT$ BARACK
WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton exploded past Barack Obama to seize the lead in campaign fund-raising for the past three months - hauling in a stunning $27 million and cementing...
CLINTON NEARLY READY FOR HER CORONATION
WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton is now the "inevitable nominee" whom everyone has been raving - and ranting - about for so long. And her dominant third-quarter fund-raising is a...
GHOUL DUEL
An ugly tug-of-war over the body of Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum's daughter-in-law - who died mysteriously while handcuffed in Phoenix police custody - ended yesterday with an inconclusive official autopsy...
EX-RANGER COACH'S WIFE IS MISSING
The wife of former New York Ranger coach Emile Francis is missing after dropping him off at a Florida airport, authorities said yesterday. Emma Francis, 77, drove him to Palm...
NIC CAGE RATTLED BY INTRUDER
Actor Nicholas Cage woke up in the middle of the night to find a strange man standing in his California home - sporting one of the star's trademark leather jackets,...
VICK HEELS IN 8-HOUR PETA CLASS
Disgraced NFL star Michael Vick paid attention and even asked questions during an eight-hour class on animal protection given by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the group...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
MANHATTAN A counterman was injured in a brawl with a homeless man who swiped $2 from a SoHo restaurant that he claimed owed him a soda, authorities said yesterday. The...
BRAVE LADY SENDS MESSAGE
SHE did it for the boys. And the girls. Anucha Browne Sand ers endured four years of abuse in the sexual cesspool known as Madison Square Garden. She suffered four...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Tue.: 934; Lucky Sum: 16 / Midday Win-4 Tue.: 2779; Lucky Sum: 25 / Evening Nos. Tue.: 649; Lucky Sum: 19 / Evening Win- 4 Tue.:...
ISIAH THOMAS, FOULING OUT
Hall of Fame point guard Isiah Thomas apparently made one pass too many. A Manhattan jury yesterday found that Thomas' unwanted advances on, and multiple verbal insults of, former Madison...
SPITZER: STILL SINKING
Gov. Spitzer seems headed for an ugly crash-and-burn - and, while no one wants that, he'll have only himself to blame if it happens. A Quinnipiac University poll yesterday put...
FLUSHING THE DEADBEATS
New Yorkers sick of their water bills growing by double-digit leaps have new hope: Council Speaker Christine Quinn is scheduling hearings this month to weigh giving the city's Water Board...
MUZZLED BY MOVEON
MOVEON.ORG, the left- wing extremists who bashed the commander of American forces in Iraq as a traitor, should get out of the political kitchen. The George Soros-funded hitmen can't stand...
COURIC'S CURIOUS 'PATRIOTISM'
IN a recent speech at the National Press Club, Katie Couric expressed somber disapproval of the jingoistic excesses after 9/11. Among the things that vexed her: "The whole culture of...
CAMPUS COWARDS' SICK DOUBLESPEAK
AT the very bottom of page 28 of last Sunday's New York Times, right opposite the obituaries, was a news item almost exactly the size of a 3-by-5 card. It...
NOT-SO-BABY STEPS FOR HILL'S BIG GOV'T
"Hill's $20B Babies" (Sept. 29) confirms that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's hiring of expensive media and political consultants who try to position her as a moderate has failed. She has...
CASE FILE: ISIAH THOMAS TRIAL
Isiah Case File
NYPD OFFICERS SHOT IN BRONX INCIDENT
Two New York City police officers were shot this morning in the Bronx. Both officers suffered minor graze wounds during the 5 a.m. incident in Tremont. They were treated at...
ISIAH THOMAS TRIAL CASE FILE
Isiah Thomas Trial
MORE THAN 3,000 WORKERS TRAPPED IN SOUTH AFRICAN GOLD MINE: REPORT
Thirty-two hundred miners were trapped more than a mile underground today after a falling pipe damamged the gold mine's shaft, according to reports. An official from Harmony Gold Mining Co.,...
MIRROR IMAGES
PHILADELPHIA - In whatever is left of glass smashed by all the baseballs, the Rockies and Phillies look in the mirror and see each other. "In the journey each club...
BECKETT, LACKEY USED TO BIG STAGE
BOSTON - John Lackey and Josh Beckett have several things in common. Both are from Texas. Both tasted success at an early age - Lackey won Game 7 of the...
PETER: THE TRUE HEAVY-WAIT CHAMP
Samuel Peter is tired of waiting. He's tired of being brushed aside. He's tired of bureaucratic nonsense keeping him from his goal of fighting for the true heavyweight championship. And...
HONDO GETS BUSY
Hondo, whose bankroll ballooned to 475 durhams after Monday night's Patriot act of cooperation, had nothing doing yesterday as he stayed on the side lines and counted his cash. Today,...
SPORTS SHORTS
BASEBALL: HR totals drop Home runs in the major leagues this year dropped to their lowest level in more than a decade. An average of 2.04 homers per game were...
DEVILS BEGIN WITHOUT A CAPTAIN
The Devils' new order continues under Brent Sutter. Two presumptive candidates for the captaincy didn't even make the rookie coach's list of temporary alternates. Neither John Madden nor Jay Pandolfo...
JINT-JET JOUST
THE Giants and Jets currently share a stadium and are partners in constructing a new billion-dollar football home that will link them in ways never before envisioned. Without compromise and...
GIANTS AUDITION PAIR OF KICKERS
Not pleased with the performance of kicker Lawrence Tynes - who last weekend against the Eagles missed a 34-yard field-goal try and an extra point - the Giants yesterday worked...
IT'S A MATTER OF SURVIVAL FOR GREEN
THE Jets' season is in peril at 1-3, with a "road" game against the suddenly rejuvenated Giants looming Sunday at Giants Stadium. They're fresh off an underachieving loss to an...
MADISON ERR GARDEN
WHEN Isiah Thomas didn't get his way this time, there was no one he could bully, no one he could humiliate, no one he could fire. There was no rich-boy...
ISIAH'S JOB NOT IN JEOPARDY
CHARLESTON, S.C. - Despite yesterday's staggering defeat in federal court, despite Isiah Thomas' image taking a massive beating, despite costing James Dolan another $11.6 million, the Knicks owner has no...
WILLIE'S BACK
Willie Randolph said he didn't have any fear of being fired and now that he's back, he won't have any fear of being fired next year. Randolph's job status was...
OMAR MADE RIGHT CALL IN KEEPING MANAGER
OMAR Minaya made his first good decision of the Mets much too early offseason yesterday by keeping Willie Randolph as manager. If Minaya had fired Randolph, it would have been...
MLB PROBES SCOTT
At some point, Met reliever Scott Schoeneweis is expected to speak with Major League Baseball regarding an ESPN.com report that said he received multiple steroids shipments in 2003 and 2004...
NETS NEED KRSTIC FOR FAST START
For the first time in Lawrence Frank's tenure, the Nets kicked off camp yesterday with a full-contact scrimmage, their answer to their habitual slow starts. That made one conspicuously absent...
RANGERS' FIRST UNIT STRANGELY SCOTT-FREE
Leave it to the Rangers to rationalize placing their most skilled center on the second power-play unit, not to mention the second even-strength line. Leave it to the Rangers to...
MEET THE NEW 'MR. OCTOBER'
The man who spit in the face of October pressure believes Alex Rodriguez won't be smothered by it for the third straight postseason. "I think he will do super well,"...
PLAIN AND SIMPLE, THEY'RE NOT HERE WITHOUT ALEX
I WILL not speak for anyone else, but in this little corner of the universe, Alex Rodriguez can go 0-for-the-playoffs and make more errors than Britney Spears and there will...
MR. AUTUMN-ATIC
THE night Derek Jeter reached the 200-hit level for the fourth straight season and the sixth time in his career, he was never asked about it, and, of course, he...
$MART MONEY
ALL ACROSS baseball, all across the country, you see the evidence of just how hard it is to qualify for the playoffs. You see the Mets slipping on a string...
'CHAMBER' MADE
One year ago, Joba Chamberlain was pitching in Hawaii with a career game plan of maybe advancing to Double-A with the Yankees by this time. "My first year, to be...
THE JAKE HAS BEEN GOOD TO JETER
Derek Jeter has mostly positive recollections of Jacobs Field and is hopeful that won't change. "I like playing there," said Jeter, whose Yanks will face the Indians in Games 1...
JASON ISN'T FIRST OPTION AT FIRST BASE
Jason Giambi will need to pack his first baseman's mitt for the playoffs - just in case - but probably shouldn't expect to use it much, if any. As tempting...
C.C. WON'T BE E-Z TASK
He is one part redwood, one part skyscraper, with cyclonic power flowing from his left arm. Put it together and Cleveland's 6-foot-7, 290-pound C.C. Sabathia presents a monstrous Game 1...
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...
ROCKET TO PITCH GAME 3
Barring a setback today when Roger Clemens rejoins the Yankees in Cleveland, Joe Torre plans on starting Clemens in Game 3 when the ALDS moves from Jacobs Field to Yankee...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A Michigan sheriff has offered to perform a wedding ceremony for two thieves who've been knocking over banks to fund their nuptials. All they have to do is turn themselves...
Isiah's here and Anucha is no hero
By MARC BERMANCHARLESTON, S.C. - Isiah Thomas flew into Charleston today at 2:15 p.m., conducted the night practice and I'm told never even mentioned to the players the sexual harassment...