October 5, 2007
ALDS GAME 2 QUICK THOUGHTS (PART 2)
1. Could the first inning from one day to the next be any different. It took the supposed aces â C.C. Sabathia and Chien-Ming Wang â 62 pitches to get...
ALDS GAME 2 QUICK THOUGHTS (PART 2)
1. Could the first inning from one day to the next be any different. It took the supposed aces â C.C. Sabathia and Chien-Ming Wang â 62 pitches to get...
If You Hate Feet, Look Away
Dude, this is gross.From the Stella McCartney show in Paris....Not sure what's worse, the freakish length of the toe or all of the red bruising. Either way, clearly fashion isn't...
ALDS GAME 2 QUICK THOUGHTS (PART 1)
1. As I write this several hours before first pitch, my expectation is that Joe Torre is totally going to attack Game 2. Under the best scenario, he gets seven...
ALDS GAME 2 QUICK THOUGHTS (PART 1)
1. As I write this several hours before first pitch, my expectation is that Joe Torre is totally going to attack Game 2. Under the best scenario, he gets seven...
Sample Sales!
BETSEY JOHNSON263 W. 38th St., between Seventh and Eighth Avenues; (212) 391-6495Sale: Oct. 5Open: 10 a.m.-8 p.m.Party dresses, separates and accessories are 80 percent off. Strapless sequin cocktail dress, $95...
Deal of the Day
Orange fever has gripped me. I don't actually own any but an old Brooks Brothers merino sweater from my boring dress days of living in Boston.But I need some now....
Marketing 'Kite Runner'
Yesterday, the New York Times devoted many column inches to a borderline hysterical story about fears of Afghan religious wars and Taliban reprisals against its young stars that might be...
Starr Report
Elsewhere on ABC, "Pushing Daisies" (left, Lee Pace as Ned.) performed well in its premiere Wednesday, winning its timeslot (8-9 p.m.) with nearly 13 million viewers and topping adults 18-49...
What's up Doc? What's cookin'?
The "Looney Tunes: ACME Arsenal" 2-player demo on Xbox Live, that's what. It's available today, to give you a preview of the game that's hitting shelves on Oct. 9 (that'd...
Oscar Watch: 'American Gangster'
One of the biggest compliments I can pay a movie is that I wish it were longer. Such is the case with Ridley Scott's masterful "American Gangster.'' At 158 minutes,...
LIVEBLOG: Sonora con carne
Pile it on!As I breeched the hill along Highway 15, a little more than an hour and a half south of the border in Nogales, I could see the smoke...
Ben There, Done That
"The Heartbreak Kid,'' an updated remake of the Neil Simon-Elaine May classic that Kyle Smith gives 1.5 stars and labels the worst of the Farrelly Brothers flicks, shouldn't have much...
ROBERT GODDARD - ROCKET MAN
Fifty years before Sputnik, Dr. Robert Goddard dreamed of sending rockets into space. In his autobiography, Robert Goddard wrote about an inspiration he had as a boy of making a...
BRANDI COVERS ALL BASES
SINGER-SONGWRITER Brandi Carlile is a top pop cover girl. And it's not because of her good looks, although she does have a cute tomboy style. At the Fillmore on Wednesday,...
GOT A JONES FOR FUNK
PLAYLIST could be accused of too often writing about old bands or bands that sound old, and here we go again. Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings (the band which helped...
A MUSICAL TRIBUTE ON CRUZ CONTROL
I you're a music star and you've died, you probably haven't really made it to heaven until you've been impersonated onstage. Arriving on the heels of similar theatrical exhumations, er,...
FIERSTEIN FIRES BACK
AS a rule, theater peo ple tend to take their lumps from critics in silence. What's there to do, once you've been caned, but slink off into a dark corner...
STAMP DRAMA INSIDE THE ENVELOPE
INHERITANCE, money and postage stamps - these are the strings pulling the characters in Theresa Rebeck's entertaining play "Mauritius," which last night opened the Manhattan Theater Club's Broadway season. But...
PHIL: LOCK BRITNEY UP
DON'T leave Britney alone. That's the message from TV shrink Dr. Phil, who yesterday said Spears is a suicide risk and may need to be committed involuntarily to a mental...
THANK GOD IT'S 'FRIDAY'
IT'S so good, it can't pos sibly succeed. That's the paradox of network television - make a show as fine as "Friday Night Lights" and you have to accept the...
HEATHER 'ROCKS' ON
Poisonous rocker Bret Michaels may have broken Heather Chadwell's heart on VH1's "Rock of Love," but that's not stopping her from following her dreams. "I'm moving to LA as soon...
STARR REPORT
You'll see more Jane Jane Seymour, who missed Tuesday's "Dancing with the Stars" to attend her mother's funeral in England, will return to the ABC series. "Jane plans to be...
16 MODELS, 1 BRAIN
REAL models, to paraphrase F. Scott Fitzgerald, are different from you and me. They are taller, thinner, and more cellulite-free than normal humans. The really dumb one can eat candy...
COMIC KUNG FU OFFERS LOOSE LEE
ACTION star Bruce Lee died while shooting "Game of Death" in 1973, but his 12 minutes of footage was so spectacular - and Lee was such a huge star -...
STARVING ARTIST WANTS A COOKIE
MARLA Olmstead slaps paint on a canvas, smushes it in random shapes with her hands, and sells the re sult for $15,000. Quel genius! Marla is 4 years old. This...
BAD HARRY DAY
THE fantasy hero of "The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising" seeks a magnificent, other worldly, elusive prize: one-tenth of Harry Potter's audience. In today's England, a teenage boy is instructed...
DATE AND SWITCH
THE Farrelly Brothers have jumped the orifice. "The Heartbreak Kid" is so laugh-poor that it shoves all its comedy chips on a bet that you can build a movie around...
STILL WATERS GRUNGE DEEP
'I just wanted to f - - - ing blow my brains out," Kurt Cobain says of the nightmare caused by chronic stomach pain. It's spooky hearing the grunge-rock god...
ALL HE'S GOTTA DO IS DREAM
'THE Good Night" is at heart a mediocre Sundance varia tion on the Dudley Moore-Bo Derek alleged classic "10." Jake Paltrow, a veteran TV director making his feature debut, doesn't...
IT'S A SICK FLICK
AUNTIE Ruth is a perv - and so, I suspect, are some of the peo ple responsible for the repellent film "Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door," based on a...
'BROKEN' BEYOND REPAIR
HEATHER Graham's career continues to sputter in "Broken," a sluggish indie drama about an innocent L.A. waitress and her sleazy boyfriend (Jeremy Sisto). A smug script that is highly amused...
IN GEORGE WE TRUST
SINCE 1999, George Clooney has appeared in films with the highest ratings of any major actor reviewed by The Post's critics. Not all of them have been financial or critical...
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 STARS Tony-winning David Hyde Pierce...
LONG-RUNNING
"AVENUE Q": 3 STARS John Golden Theatre, 252 W. 45th St.; (212) 239-6200. "CHICAGO": 4 STARS Ambassador Theatre, 219 W. 49th St.; (212) 239-6200. "THE COLOR PURPLE": 3 STARS Broadway...
OFF-BROADWAY
"ALTAR BOYZ": 3 STARS Musical spoof of Christian-pop boy bands is entertaining despite one-joke premise. New World Stages, 340 W. 50th St.; (877) 226-9941. "AMERICAN SLIGO": 2 STARS Adam Rapp's...
POP, ROCK, FOLK
JENNIFER LOPEZ AND MARC ANTHONY: The couple co-headlines at Madison Square Garden Sunday and Monday at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $49.50 - $250.00. THE MELVINS: Grunge pioneers shake things up...
CLASSICAL
TOMORROW: Dicapo Opera presents Gounod's "Romeo et Juliette" at 8 p.m. at 184 E. 76th St. at Lexington Ave.; (212) 288-9438. Also tomorrow at 8 p.m. Placido Domingo conducts Gounod's...
DANCE
THE CITY CENTER: Fall for Dance festival continues today and tomorrow at 8 p.m. 131 W. 55th St.; (212) 581-1212. For a complete schedule: citycenter.org. THE GUGGENHEIM: "Works & Process"...
JAZZ
BIRDLAND: Wednesday though Oct. 13: Ben Riley Monk Legacy Quartet presents "Thelonious Monk 90th Birthday Celebration!" 315 W. 44th St.; (212) 581-3080. BLUE NOTE: Through Sunday: Dee Dee Bridgewater. 131...
CABARET
CAFÉ CARLYLE: Tuesday. Eartha Kitt. 35 E. 76th St.; (212) 570-7189. FEINSTEIN'S: Today and Tomorrow: Rendezvous: An Evening with Piaf, Brel, Aznavour & Friends. 540 Park Ave.; (212) 339-4095. METROPOLITAN...
FILM
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES: Paper Tiger Television celebrates its 25th year of examining mainstream media through the alternative lens of cable access television with a 7 p.m. Thursday reception that includes...
COMEDY
CAROLINES: Through Sunday: Aisha Tyler and Geno Bisconte. 1626 Broadway; (212) 757-4100. COMEDY CELLAR: Tonight and tomorrow: Colin Quinn, Jim Norton, Dave Attell, Veronica Mosely and Keith Robinson. 117 MacDougal...
FAIRS, FESTS, ETC...
UNION SQUARE AUTUMN FAIR: Today from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., a street fair on Park Avenue South from 17th to 23rd streets. LEXINGTON AVENUE FALL FESTIVAL: Sunday from 11...
HOT PICKS
BIG SHOES TO FILL Some find them funny, many think they're terrifying, and most everyone can agree they use too much eyeliner. At least 100 clowns from eight countries will...
PREVIEWS
"A BRONX TALE": Chazz Palminteri plays 18 characters in his 1989 one-man show about growing up in The Bronx. Walter Kerr, 219 W. 48th St.; (212) 239-6200. Opens Oct. 25."JUMP":...
CASINO BEAT
NEW JERSEY * The "SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE" live tour cha cha chas its way into the Boardwalk Hall Arena at 8 p.m. tomorrow. Tickets: $37.50-$54.50; boardwalkhall.com, (609)...
WEEKEND SUBWAY GUIDE
1 train: No trains between 14th Street and South Ferry. Take the 2 or 3 between 14th St. and Chambers. Free shuttle buses between Chambers and South Ferry. 2, 3:...
COUNTY CLERKS REBEL VS. SPITZER ID PLAN
The state's county clerks revolted yesterday against Gov. Spitzer's plan to allow illegal immigrants to obtain state driver's licenses - and some vowed not to carry it out if ordered...
FIFTH 1ST IN $HOPS
Rodeo Drive? Puh-leeze! The country's far-and-away leader in elite retail remains Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, by a $7 million mile. Real-estate firm Colliers International ranked the most expensive shopping streets in...
SOX HATERS BATTER FAN IN YONKERS: COPS
A Massachusetts man was beaten to a pulp in Yonkers yesterday - apparently just for being a Red Sox fan. Cops said Carlos Ortez, of Quincy, was in the bar...
PUBLICITY-SHY MAYOR TAKES 'SWIPE' AT ID LAWMEN
Anyone would be a little snippy after falling victim to identity theft - but leave it to Mayor Bloomberg to take it to a new level. When asked yesterday about...
MIKE: IT IS MY BUSINESS
After downplaying his continuing involvement with his worldwide media company for years, Mayor Bloomberg admitted yesterday that he's in constant contact with senior management and is consulted on all major...
'SOPRANO' BACKS '88 L.I. KILLER
"Sopranos" star James Gandolfini showed up at a Brooklyn appellate court yesterday to show support for a Long Island man seeking to overturn his controversial 1990 conviction for murdering his...
CONN. REFUGE FOR VET'S PAL
The only sounds Sinan Abdullah hears nowadays come from the rustic New England woods. No more roadside bombs, no more screaming wounded, no more rattle of an AK-47 or of...
'COP SHOOT' GUY HIT WITH A LIGHT RAP
Two detectives nearly killed in a wild Bronx shootout - already humiliated after being forced to prove their sobriety during the gunfight - had another insult added to their injuries...
JAIL-KNIFE RAP VS. NIXZMARY DAD
The stepfather accused of savagely beating young Nixzmary Brown to death last year has been charged with weapons possession after guards found two shivs in his Rikers Island cell, sources...
TEACHER HOUSING ON TAP FOR BX.
The city will help fund the construction of two Bronx buildings to be used as affordable housing for educators, Comptroller William Thompson Jr. announced yesterday. The buildings, which are to...
GRAFFITI VANDAL SLAPPED
Spray-can king Alain Mariduena - who tagged countless walls and subway cars with the moniker "KET" - was sentenced to three years' probation yesterday on Manhattan felony graffiti charges. The...
A 'GAG' HARBOR HOUSE
A super-rich South American says he paid $36,000 for an 11-day stay in a Sag Harbor home that wasn't up to "sniff" - in fact, it stank to high heaven....
BUSH JUDGE PICK OK'D
The Senate yesterday unanimously confirmed Brooklyn federal prosecutor Roslynn Mauskopf as a federal judge for the Eastern District of New York. Mauskopf, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, has served as...
SINGER: MY NEW LABEL'S NOT GINUWINE
Singer Ginuwine says his new record company is bogus. In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, the R&B star says he signed a $1.75 million recording deal with King Music...
'WE N.Y., NOT VEGAS'
A couple who came from foreign lands to get hitched at New York's Marriage Bureau yesterday said there was no other choice but the Big Apple - although they would...
SEPT. 11 WIDOW 'RIP-OFF'
A shady former MetLife stockbroker stole a quarter-million dollars from a 9/11 widow who entrusted him with her share of the federal victim-compensation fund, federal prosecutors say. Kevin Dunn, 28,...
NFL STAR TRIES DRUG-TEST END AROUND
Star Denver Bronco running back Travis Henry has asked a Long Island court to let him use an expert of his choice to retest a urine sample that came back...
THIRD GUN RAP COULD MAKE HIM PRISON PRODIGY
G-Unit rapper Prodigy went on trial in Manhattan yesterday for the .22-caliber handgun cops found in his bulletproof Chevy Suburban last year. Prodigy, 32, is insisting he had no idea...
FERTILE MINDS
"Hoe" is not an insult at John Bowne HS in Queens - it's a learning tool. That's because the 2,900-student Flushing school hosts the Department of Education's sole agricultural program...
FIREMAN SWIMS FOR 9/11 TWIN
On 9/11, firefighter Lance Ogren was taking an FDNY lieutenant's course on Staten Island when his swimming buddy - his beloved Bravest twin brother, Joseph - got the call to...
HARLEM MOMS HAIL CARE DESPITE INFANT-DEATH RATE
Pregnant mothers in Harlem expressed surprise yesterday at the jump in infant mortality in their neighborhood - especially since they get great prenatal care there, they said. "I'm not concerned,...
LIGHTING UP ROOSEVELT IS. HISTORY
The largest public art project to hit the city since "The Gates" in Central Park will be on display beginning tonight when a field at the southern tip of Roosevelt...
TEARS FOR A BRAVE 'COP'S COP'
A beloved Brooklyn police officer who was mysteriously shot to death in her Long Island home was remembered yesterday as "a cop's cop." Hundreds of officers packed the Blessed Sacrament...
MAN SET ABLAZE
A homeless man was set on fire early this morning while he was sleeping in front of a Harlem church, police said. The unidentified man was napping in front of...
J/Z THE LATEST SUBPAR SUBWAY
So far, the subway is getting "C's" and worse. Riders have given the J/Z line, the latest to be rated, an overall grade of "C-minus," officials said yesterday. They've so...
UPPER EAST SIDE 'DRUG THUGS' ARE BUSTED
More than 2,000 residents of two neighboring Upper East Side housing projects can breathe a sigh of relief now that six alleged members of a crack gang are behind bars....
BLAZE KILLS TOT AS MA RESCUES 5
A fire killed a 7-month-old baby in Brooklyn yesterday - despite the brave efforts of his mother, who saved at least five other children. The midday blaze started in the...
'BERSERK' MAN DIES
A delusional man died in custody yesterday after going on a rampage in Queens, breaking into a real-estate office and beating a man with a trash can, law-enforcement sources said....
AMY A BRUISE SINGER
Amy Winehouse, keeping her trademark beehive in order with hair clips, sweeps back the rest of her mane to reveal her newest piece of body art - a hickey. The...
DESPERATE CALL
Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum's stepson frantically called the Phoenix airport five minutes after his wife was arrested - pleading with operators to treat her "with kid gloves" because she was...
RUDY STIRS UP MOST PASSION AMONG VOTERS
Boosted by his handling of 9/11, Rudy Giuliani enjoys the most "emotional" support on the presidential campaign trail, according to an unusual new study released yesterday. The "positive emotional temperature"...
OBAMA: WHY I STOPPED WEARING FLAG PIN
WASHINGTON - Barack Obama said he's not wearing an American flag lapel pin anymore. "I decided I won't wear that pin on my chest," he said in a television interview...
HILLARY IN 9/11 AIR STRIKE
Hillary Rodham Clinton unveiled a darkly emotional TV ad yesterday that uses tragic scenes of Ground Zero to subtly challenge Rudy Giuliani's carefully cultivated image as the hero of 9/11....
BRIT GOT GROUNDED
A family-court judge put Britney Spears on a short leash, sternly telling the messed-up mom to stay clean and do what she's told, court documents revealed yesterday. Los Angeles Superior...
CRAIG DIGS IN HEELS
WASHINGTON - Idaho Sen. Larry Craig defiantly vowed to serve out his term in office yesterday - despite losing a court attempt to rescind his guilty plea in a men's...
GOLD TARNISH
Track star Marion Jones, once considered the world's greatest female athlete, has copped to using a powerful steroid for two years while she prepared for her victorious turn at the...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan A burglar wanted for a series of Manhattan computer thefts was nabbed in Atlantic City, authorities said yesterday. Between April 13 and July 22, Frank Demedina, 44, and at...
NEXT DEBATE IS MAKE OR BREAK FOR THOMPSON
NEXT week's debate outside Detroit is do or die hard for Fred Thompson. Actively campaigning for almost a month now, the "Law & Order" and "Die Hard 2" actor still...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Thu.: 468; Lucky Sum: 18 / Midday Win-4 Thu.: 4817; Lucky Sum: 20 / Evening Nos. Thu.: 050; Lucky Sum: 5 / Evening Win-4 Thu.: 2587;...
THE LONELY PBA
It's getting lonely out there for the Pa trolmen's Benevolent Association. On Tuesday, City Hall announced a new pact with the Detectives' Endowment Association. The agreement means a pay hike...
SPITZER'S LICENSE REVOLT
You can add New York's county clerks - the folks who have to process the paperwork and deal with the bureaucratic fallout - to the rapidly growing roster of those...
REINING IN BLACKWATER
The FBI has taken control of the official investigation into Blackwater USA, the private security firm re sponsible for protecting State Department personnel in Iraq, which has been accused of...
HOFSTRA HOSTS A TERROR FAN
HOW politicized are America's law schools? So much so that administrators at Long Island's Hofstra Law School may well have had no idea that they'd touch off a furor when...
FREE-TRADE FOLLIES
THERE was a profound sense of alarm in Republican circles yesterday, and for once it wasn't about sad news from Iraq or the arrest of a senator in an airport...
IRAQ'S NEXT TEST
BAGHDAD 'WHAT do you do when Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson offer to put down their arms?" That's the rhetorical question posed by an officer of the 2nd Brigade,...
THE WORLD'S TOP MEDICINE
CRITICS of the U.S. health-care system point to the 100,000 or so Americans who go overseas for treatment each year, typically citing lower costs. Fair enough - but they should...
CHASTITY BEGINS AT HOME
THE ISSUE: New York's rejection of federal funding for abstinence sex-ed programs. Why does the state Health Department treat abstinence like it is a crime ("Albany's Odd Abstinence," Editorial, Sept....
SHARP LEFT TURN AHEAD: MCGOV BACKS CLINTON
THE ISSUE: Former Sen. George McGovern's presidential endorsement of Hillary Clinton. Sen. George McGovern's endorsement of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for president is not surprising ("An Oldie but a Baddie,"...
SORROW FOR SPEARS & KIN
THE ISSUE: The custody battle between Britney Spears and her ex-husband over their two kids. This is no time to celebrate - it is a sad day when any mother...
PEACE OFFERING
The move by hedge fund gadfly Bill Ackman to buy a stake in Sears Holdings Corp. was the result of efforts between Ackman and Sears Chairman Edward Lampert over the...
CAYNE: BEAR IS NOT FOR SALE
Despite turning in the worst performance of Wall Street's five major investment banks, Bear Stearns chief Jimmy Cayne says the firm can go it alone. At an investor conference yesterday,...
WEB AD $$ STILL FLYING
Defying gravity, Internet advertising has hit another high. Revenue from Web ads topped $10 billion - a new record - in the first half of the year - up 26...
JANN'S GOT HIS MAN
JANN Wenner is said to be thisclose to picking an editor for Men's Journal. The front-runner is said to be Ed Felsenthal, the assistant managing editor of The Wall Street...
KIDZ BOP KICKS OFF 80-CITY CONCERT TOUR
Looking to grab a slice of the lucrative concert business, Razor & Tie Entertainment will next week launch an 80-city tour tied to its wildly successful Kidz Bop series, which...
EX-MORGAN INSIDERS GET HOME TIME
It's home sweet home for a husband-and-wife lawyer team who were sentenced to house arrest yesterday for their roles in one of the largest insider-trading schemes in Wall Street history....
SALLIE HANGS TOUGH
Sallie Mae's hard-boiled boss, Albert Lord, has received some surprising support as he battles billionaire financier J. Christopher Flowers over the $25 billion takeover of the nation's largest student loan...
BELT TIGHTENS AT NUTRISYSTEM
NutriSystem, the diet company famed for helping football legend Dan Marino drop a few pounds, shed about a third of its stock market value yesterday after admitting that a new...
CONVICT COMEDIAN BLACK'S LAST LAUGH
Conrad "You can call me Connie" Black got some laughs doing stand-up ahead of his possible lock-up, but the move may get a thumbs-down from his sentencing judge. Black -...
CABLE RATE FIGHT
Veteran investor Mario Gabelli, upset over what he considers to be a low-ball bid for Cablevision Systems by the Dolan family, may go to court to try to get a...
THE GARDEN OF EVIL
HERE'S how sad, small and sick Madison Square Garden has become under the Dolan/Cablevision yoke: Three times in the last six months, I've tried to write something - in one...
DICE-K FACES OCTOBER TEST
BOSTON - There is mystery on the mound with the pitcher known as Dice-K. No one in the Red Sox organization knows Daisuke Matsuzaka better than pitching coach John Farrell...
'GINI UNBOTTLED
IF ERIC Mangini and Brian Schottenheimer are wondering if their honeymoon with Jets fans is over, they should log on to jetsinsider.com and peruse the message board. Can't repeat some...
KAZ ROCKS PHILS
PHILADELPHIA - Sixty-six pitches were all Kyle Kendrick had thrown. No Rockies scored after Kendrick's final 60 pitches, not after Troy Tulowitzki and Matt Holliday had hit solo homers back-to-back...
RELAXED BOSOX SET FOR GAME 2
BOSTON - When the Angels walked onto the Fenway Park field for a workout yesterday afternoon, a reminder of the night before was staring at them from left field. The...
TEEING UP TEBOW
Last season Florida overcame a mid-season loss to Auburn to win college football's national championship. Now the Gators have to do it again - after a stunning 20-17 loss to...
TRENDSETTERS
REDSKINS (-31/2) VS. LIONS, 1 P.M. Washington has covered nine of 11 following a bye week, four of five against winning teams, and the home team has covered five of...
FAB FAVRE'S YOUR BEST BRETT
Adding to his stuffed trophy case, The Wildcat captured first place over more than 50 foes in the 2006-07 edition of Playbook's long-running Wise Guys Contest with an overall record...
THE ODD COUPLE
Almost there. The Odd Couple (Dick Klayman & Peter Tocco) almost had a non-losing week with a 6-8 finish against the spread that can only mean great days are coming....
MISS CHARLEEN
SUNDAY: Giants, Saints, Chiefs, Redskins, Titans, Dolphins, Seahawks, Browns, Cards, Bucs, Broncos, Ravens, Packers. MONDAY: Bills. BEST BETS: Browns, Broncos, Bills.
O/U RICO!
Rico had his first losing week of the season, going 5-8-1 (0-2-1 on Best Bets) and bringing the season record to 33-28-1 (8-3-1). Selections for Week 5: OVER: Jaguars /...
MORE STRONG NIGHT MOVES FROM HONDO
Hondo, aka The Great Hondini, once again escaped from what looked like a semi-disastrous week and rallied in the Sunday and Monday nighters to finish semi-respectable at 7 & 7....
5 QUESTIONS FOR...KIRK HERBSTREIT
THE Post's Justin Terranova caught up with ESPN college football analyst Kirk Herbstreit to talk about Rutgers, last week's big upsets and some of this week's games. Q: You picked...
STEWARDS KO 'KATS' IN OPENER
Garrett Gomez took off his three mounts yesterday, body sore after being unseated at start of Wednesday's third race; he hopes to ride today at Keeneland. FIRST RACE: Going mile-and-sixteenth...
HONDO: ANDY MAN CAN
Hondo remained oh-for-the-playoffs yesterday when the fast-fading Phillies flopped in Game 2 to lower the earnings to a perfectly striking 300 mahaffeys. Today, he'll be peeved if Pettitte doesn't stop...
SPORTS SHORTS
GOLF: Parnevik shoots 61Jesper Parnevik shot a career-best 9-under 61 to take a four-stroke lead after the first round of the Texas Open yesterday in San Antonio. Justin Leonard -...
DEVILS NO MATCH IN SUTTER'S COACHING DEBUT
TAMPA, Fla. - Brent Sutter's NHL coaching debut was about as successful as his tactic of not assigning John Madden to shackle Vincent Lecavalier. Lecavalier's pair of goals erased the...
OSI SACKING KIND WORDS
A modest Osi Umenyiora insists his six-sack domination of Philadelphia was no big deal, a product of downfield pass coverage and sound team defense. Leave it to former defensive end...
MUNCH BUNCH AIMS TO FEAST
ONCE upon a time, Lawrence Taylor, Harry Carson and Co. posed menacingly for Crunch Bunch posters. If these modern-day Giants continue to terrorize the quarterback, if they keep showing up...
HIXON WATCHING EVERETT IMPROVE
Domenik Hixon, acquired by the Giants on Wednesday, watched three Denver teammates carried off the field on stretchers in eight months, but even that didn't prepare him for seeing Bills...
NEW-LOOK ISLES RARIN' TO GO
The Islanders begin their season tonight in Buffalo, where last season ended in a Game 4 loss in the first round of the playoffs, but much has changed for both...
REVIS READY FOR REPEAT
Based on the rapid-fire approach the Bills took last week peppering Darrelle Revis with passes, the Jets' rookie cornerback is expecting a busy afternoon Sunday against the Giants. Bills rookie...
MANGINI KEEPS COOL JUST LIKE WILLIE
HIS team might be 1-3 and facing a Giants defense that recorded 12 sacks in its last game, but you never would know it by Eric Mangini's calm demeanor this...
PRESSURE BRINGS 'HOLE' NEW GAME
A number of Jets veterans this week have cautioned their teammates not to get too caught up in the deepening hole the team finds itself in at 1-3 entering Sunday's...
EASY TO DOUBT THOMAS
"I remain confident in the man that I am and what I stand for." - Isiah ThomasCHARLESTON, S.C. - Like hundreds of others who've worked for, played with or for,...
MARBURY QUESTIONS PUT ISIAH ON DEFENSIVE
CHARLESTON, S.C. - Isiah Thomas must have felt like he was back in federal court. He was on the defensive again yesterday, sticking up for the Knicks' lightning rod, Stephon...
CARTER, NETS GLAD TO ADD ARMSTRONG
Vince Carter could hardly wipe the smile off of his face as he talked about the prospect of playing with Darrell Armstrong, who was expected to be signed before the...
RANGERS DO GET IT GOING
If the Garden were the Roman Colisseum, then the spectators in the gallery would have turned thumbs-down on the home team after the first 40 minutes of the season, and,...
TORRID TRIBE TORCHES 'EM
CLEVELAND - Say hello to Chien-Ming Gong. Pitted against Indians stud C.C. Sabathia, the leading Cy Young Award candidate, on a night the lefty was ripe for a spanking, Chien-Ming...
ON THE ROPES, INDIANS STILL TAKE THE FIFTH (INNING)
CLEVELAND - The infuriating thing was this: The game plan worked. The blueprint worked. The Yankees had a book on C.C. Sabathia, the man who could well win the Cy...
NEED A NEW PERSPECTIVE? TALK TO A CLEVELAND FAN
CLEVELAND - Out on Ontario Street, on a wonderfully sun-dappled morning, a one-man retro crew named Francis Gladden was hoping for communion with the sporting gods. On his head was...
IN ARM'S WAY
CLEVELAND - At some point in Yan kees history we will look back in 2007 as the year the organization turned toward young pitching, the year when Joba ruled and...
TRIBE & TRIBULATION
CLEVELAND - C.C. Sabathia was just begging for a whooping last night, but Jorge Posada and Hideki Matsui kept letting the Indians lefty off the hook. Playing the October role...
NOTHING GOES RIGHT FOR WANG
CLEVELAND - Chien-Ming Wang couldn't have picked a worse time to match his worst outing of the year. Last night he was simply Chien-Ming Wrong. The Indians battered the right-hander,...
NOT SECOND-RATE
CLEVELAND - Plenty of the scenery has changed since Andy Pettitte made his last postseason start for the Yankees in 2003, but just like old times, he is entrusted with...
FANS CALL OUT A-ROD
CLEVELAND - Alex Rodriguez began hearing it from the fans at Jacobs Field before his second at-bat last night. The chant "over-rated" was for A-Rod, a dig at the Yankees...
SABATHIA STAYS COOL UNDER FIRE
CLEVELAND - C.C. Sabathia was on the ropes. The Indians' ace faced a bases loaded, one-out situation in the fifth inning with his team clutching a 4-3 lead. Sabathia was...
CAN DOUG LIMP BACK TONIGHT?
CLEVELAND - YES . . . and it hurts. Now the question is how much does Doug Mientkiewicz's left ankle hurt after a freelance cameraman hired by YES stumbled and...
KENNY BOLSTERS INDIANS' LOFT-Y GOALS
CLEVELAND - Back in late July when the Indians still were looking up at the Tigers in the AL Central standings, Cleveland manager Eric Wedge looked at his lineup. He...
CLEVELAND'S CARMONA HAD 'CLOSER' CALL
CLEVELAND - The grand bullpen experiment for the Indians last season produced a result more gruesome than any teenagers-get-sliced-and-diced horror flick. After closer Bob Wickman was peddled to Atlanta, Cleveland...
WANG MIGHT START GAME 4
CLEVELAND - Joe Torre wanted to see how Chien-Ming Wang fared against the Indians last night in Game 1 of the ALDS before announcing who will pitch Game 4 at...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Teens got lucky after firing a pellet gun at a Burton, Mich., lawyer - a rugby player whose nickname is "Dr. Death." Michael Breczinski said the kids almost caught him...
ALDS GAME 1 THOUGHTS (PART 4)
1. Joe Torre is seriously going to have to contemplate benching Melky Cabrera and losing that defense because the young switch-hitterâs offense is so bad, right now. With three righties...
Opening Night
After nearly two full periods of wondering when the dam was going to break, the third period deluge of Ranger goals made the wait worthwhile.Michal Roszival opened the scoring barely...
Buy & Sell
We're deep enough into the season now to cut ties with some of those who have not lived up to expectations, and invest in others who have exceeded projections. Let's...
ALDS GAME 1 THOUGHTS (PART 3)
1. Here is an amazing fact for you guys because, well, I care: In his whole career, C.C. Sabathia had only given up two homers to lefty hitters in one...
ALDS GAME 1 THOUGHTS (PART 3)
1. Here is an amazing fact for you guys because, well, I care: In his whole career, C.C. Sabathia had only given up two homers to lefty hitters in one...