October 9, 2007
The Death of Sportsmanship
On all levels, from fans without respect for other fans and players without respect for their fellow competitors, sportsmanship is a dying practice. The NHL has remained a bastion of...
State of the Blueshirts
Both Ranger and Islander fans alike are anticipating tomorrow's meeting, the first of many between the two clubs. The Isles broke out to a strong start before faltering last night...
Indomitable Spirit
Jason Blake, who revealed Monday that he has leukemia, will play tonight for Toronto and declared he will continue to perform at the high level of play for which he...
THE YANKEES LOSE
October 9, 2007 GEORGE KING -- According to several people with knowledge of the situation, Joe Torre's fate will be decided in a few days. And when it is, it's...
Bargain Alert
Our friends at Whim sent us a discount code that we just punched in to get a pair of William Rast Savoy Trousers.You can enter "denim07" and checkout too and...
'Redacted' Redacted
Brian DePalma's controversial "Redacted,'' which has been doing the festival circuit prior to its opening next month, is a mock documentary inspired, he says, by a real-life atrocity involving U.S....
My 15 Seconds Of Fame
So whatâs it like trying out (and making it on) to a game show? The Post has the inside story from one reality TV-hardened vet. We can't reveal our source,...
The Simpsons Game demo out now
Got Xbox Live or PlayStation Home? Exceeeellent. Now you can play "The Simpsons Game" demo. The full episode, called Shadow of the Colossal Donut, is available for your gaming ha...
Deal of the Day-Take Two
It's a double deal of the day since, I left the haute list hanging yesterday due to some outstanding work.In any case, I love Built by Wendy for her hipster...
So Who Actually Directed 'Poltergeist'? Spielberg or Hooper?
I did this piece the other day about the lack of special features on "Twilight Zone: The Movie,'' arriving on DVD today. Not a huge surprise: it's a so-so movie...
Deal of the Day
Check out these adorable and preppy Rachel Comey Brown Bumper Clogs from LA's Creatures of Comfort.It's like a cross between a clog and an old school Bass kiltie loafer, and...
Dobbs Back On Air
Lou Dobbs is back on TV, but his tonsils aren't.The CNN commentator returned to the air last night for the first time in almost a month following a tonsillectomy.Dobbs turned...
Starr Report
So what network shows are New Yorkers watching so far this season? "Dancing with the Stars" was the most-watched show in the New York market the week of Sept. 24-30...
NEW YORK - THE BIG APPLE
Today's page gives a brief look at the history of one of the world's greatest cities - ours. The first New Yorkers were native tribes, Lenape, Manahattoes, Raritan and Canarsee....
YOU LOOK REHAB-ULOUS
While Lindsay finishes her treatment on an outpatient basis, it behooves us to remember what we all can learn from her stint in rehab. Mainly, that you don't have to...
MAKING HIS MARC ... AGAIN
HE'S got us surrounded: on the northeast side of Bleecker and West 11th streets, the northeast side of Bleecker and Perry, a block down on Bleecker's west side between Perry...
QUESTION MARC
MARC Jacobs bared his tongue in Paris on Sunday night. While taking his bow on the catwalk following the Louis Vuitton show, he publicly - in front of an audience...
IT'S MISS KITT, TO YOU
EARTHA Kitt might sing about wanting to be evil, but when it comes to her own health and diet, the 80-year-old cabaret singer is very, very good. Kitt is currently...
J.LO'S LATEST PREGNANT WITH POP POTENTIAL
WHILE her Spanish-language album (released back in March) was a major siesta, J.Lo's "Brave" is a fiesta of top pop music. Nearly every song has a quality hook with single...
BROTHERS OF INVENTION
IS it life imitating art or clever adults manipu lating children? In the case of teen phenomenon the Naked Brothers Band, it just might be unrepressed musical genius bubbling to...
MPFREE
Download these free MP3s through Friday at nypost.comThe Naked Brothers Band, "I'm Out" Kiddie music tends to be of the sappy, twee variety. Not so for these brothers-in-a-band and their...
IN THE PEASANT TENSE
THE enterprising Mint Theater continues to impress with its canny unearthing of long-forgotten plays, and its revival of "The Power of Darkness" is another coup. Few theatergoers probably even knew...
STARR REPORT
Local 'Stars' So what network shows are New Yorkers watching so far this season? "Dancing with the Stars" was the most- watched show in the New York market the week...
FAMILY BASHES CHARLES SCHULZ SHOW
THE son of "Peanuts" cartoon ist Charles Schulz says he's dissatisfied with the way his late father is portrayed in an upcoming "American Masters" on PBS. Monte Schulz, 55, commented...
DR. PHIL SPREADS OUT
'DR. Phil" McGraw is working on a spinoff of his hit talk show. McGraw, whose own show, "Dr. Phil," was spun off from "Oprah," is looking to launch his own...
FIRST LOOK 'RUNWAY'
DON'T get me wrong: everything's still more than alright with the upcoming "Project Runway" season four. But it's turned into the Olympics - a competition for amateurs that morphed into...
MORE LIVE BRUCE
SUDDENLY impossible to avoid on TV: Bruce Springsteen. VH1 will air two songs live from the Boss' Meadowlands concert tomorrow night at around 8 p.m., the network said yesterday. The...
THIS TIME, HE'S EVIL
IT'S a battle of old vs. new when Dean Cain guest-stars on an upcoming episode of "Smallville." Cain, who played the Man of Steel in the '90s ABC series "Lois...
IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
With both Jupiter and Saturn prominent on your birthday you will not only get the chance to increase your wealth but you will invest what you gain wisely rather than...
PRETTY IN DRINK
THINK it's impossible to eat out and lose weight without giving up your spectacular city girl social life? Not true. To this end, Esther Blum - a nutritionist and registered...
DON'T LUMP ALL BIOPSIES TOGETHER
DOCTORS have made huge leaps in developing techniques for the evaluation and treatment of breast lesions, and this has made a positive impact on the lives of women. But surgeons...
GOV CREW SHOVES PROTESTER
A man who noisily protested Gov. Spitzer's plan for issuing drivers' licenses to illegal aliens at yesterday's Columbus Day Parade found himself shoved by a member of the governor's detail....
BELL'S PALS EYE SUIT VS. DETECTIVE UNION
Victims of the Sean Bell police shooting may slap the detectives union with a lawsuit over its involvement in the case, the Rev. Al Sharpton warned yesterday. "It is highly...
DOPP SPLITS SPITZ: INSIDERS
ALBANY - Darren Dopp, Gov. Spitzer's $175,000-a-year communications director who was suspended for 30 days because of his role in the dirty-tricks scandal, may have landed a job with a...
GIVE HACKS CREDIT
Taxis equipped with credit-card machines are boosting tips for drivers, city officials told The Post. So while hacks calling for a taxi strike Oct. 22 contend that the 5 percent...
ST. JOHN'S RIFLEMAN UNFIT FOR TRIAL: SHRINK
The gun-toting student who terrorized St, John's University is unfit to stand trial and should be confined to a mental institution, according to a court-ordered psychological report, a source told...
RIPPER WARNING
A relative of the psycho slasher who staged a bloody rampage on the East Side said last night he warned cops hours before the attack that the suspect was sick...
NOW BIG APPLE IS PITTS' BURG
Brangelina has landed - at the Waldorf Towers. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are plunking down nearly $100,000 a month to rent a super-deluxe pad at the ritzy hotel residence...
IT'S DELUXE AND DELOVELY
Paris Hilton was the anti-Eloise running through its hallways growing up, but the tony Waldorf Towers has entertained plenty more prestigious residents. It has hosted every U.S. president since the...
CELEBRITY CHEF A BIG 'STAR'
Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay sliced and diced the competition as his restaurant yesterday be came the city's only new eatery to win a coveted two out of three stars in...
GEAR 'BURNING' BRAVEST
Lifesaving alarms worn by New York's Bravest and firefighters nationwide are prone to malfunction, a recently released report revealed. A National Fire Protection Association report showed that current PASS (Personal...
TORMENT OF DEATH-CAB DRIVER
It was going to be his last fare of the night. Md Chowdhury, 23, was pulling away from a green light at 40th Street and Third Avenue Sunday night to...
OFFICER-SLAY CASE IN PERIL
Lawyers for three men accused of killing hero cop Russel Timoshenko have found a bullet fragment and other new forensic evidence in the stolen SUV used in his shooting -...
HERO'S WELCOME
Two heroes who rescued four girls from a hellish Harlem gas explosion that left their mom near death Saturday had a tearful meeting yesterday with the victims' family at New...
POSTIE FINDS MISSING GAL
A Post photographer yesterday helped cops find a missing Manhattan woman. William Lopez was on his way to work when he heard over a police scanner that a woman -...
BURIED TRUTH
Officials at a national cemetery on Long Island have removed the headstone of an identity thief who stole the name of a soldier who served in Vietnam - and are...
TEEN DAD CHARGED IN BABY DEATH
A teenage father was charged with murder last night after Bronx authorities determined his baby girl died after he wrapped her in a quilt and left her to suffocate in...
APPLE U'S BEST IN THE BIZ
The business schools at Columbia and New York University are among the toughest in the nation to get into, but NYU students say they have better career prospects. In the...
GALACTIC WAR
A feud between a New York meteorite collector and an Oregon Indian tribe could send the value of a disputed space rock shooting into the stratosphere. Bonhams is set to...
BATTLE OF THE 'BATH' HEATS UP
More than 200 neighborhood activists joined local politicians at a Lower East Side rally yesterday to demand the city renovate and reopen the abandoned La Guardia Bathhouse. "I call on...
ICE SKATERS HIT PUDDLE MUDDLE
It was more like water-skiing than ice skating for diehard skaters who defied the record heat and laced up for opening day at Rockefeller Center's ice rink yesterday. As temperatures...
'HIT-RUN' HORROR
The father of an FDNY chief who lost his command in the wake of the tragic Deutsche Bank building fire was killed in Queens yesterday by a drunk hit-and-run driver,...
NANNY SUES U.N. 'SLAVE' EMPLOYERS
A Peruvian woman says a pair of United Nations workers promised her a dream life in America if she cared for their baby - but instead subjected her to inhumane...
PAINTED AS A 'SCAM ARTIST'
Housed in a 25,000- square-foot palazzo off Madison Avenue, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries bills itself as a top-flight New York dealer that offers unprecedented access outside of a museum to Titians, Michelangelos...
POLICE HUNT BRONX PERV
A man tried to abduct a teenage girl from a Bronx bus stop - then flashed her when she fought him off, cops said yesterday. The pervert struck at Louis...
'COLUMBUS' AVE.
It was a glorious, sunny day for Italia yesterday as tens of thousands of New Yorkers stepped lively up Fifth Avenue to celebrate Columbus Day. Some revelers hailed from the...
HAPPY PINZON DAY, TOO
When Columbus sailed the ocean blue back in 1492, he didn't go it alone. Two brothers say they have ancestors who captained the other two ships that sailed alongside the...
BAPTISM BY FIRE
Tiger Woods' gorgeous wife, Elin Nordegren, prowled Stockholm yesterday with the couple's 4-month-old daughter, Sam Alexis, in tow. The 27-year-old model was in her native Sweden for Sam Alexis' baptism...
BRAIN-CELL HAZARD: STUDY
Don't give your children cellphones - because using them an hour a day for more than 10 years increases the risk of brain tumors, a Swedish scientist warns. Children have...
SCHOOL CRY: KILL IRAN PREZ
More than 100 Iranian students chanted "Death to the dictator!" and scuffled with police and other students at Tehran University yesterday in a rare protest against hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad....
HILL AVOIDS FLAMING BERGER
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Hillary Rodham Clinton distanced herself yesterday from close friend and adviser Sandy Berger - who snatched classified documents form the National Archives - after it was...
'O.D.' BEAUTY WAS SCARED TO DEATH
Hours before she was found dead of an overdose in the condo of a top New York hotel executive, a young woman text-messaged and called girlfriends to say she was...
LINDSAY'S REHAB TELL-ALL
Just eight hours out of rehab - for the third time - a clean and sober Lindsay Lohan candidly revealed how she had "hit rock bottom" after being busted twice...
NYPD BLOTTER
QUEENS A man was arrested for selling cocaine and marijuana out of a Mister Softee ice-cream truck, authorities said yesterday. Domenico Pedalino, 27, drove the truck throughout Whitestone, selling ice...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Mon.: 203; Lucky Sum: 5 / Midday Win-4 Mon.: 8069; Lucky Sum: 23 / Evening Nos. Mon.: 308; Lucky Sum: 11 / Evening Win- 4 Mon.:...
TAKE A U-TURN, ELIOT
With every passing day, it seems, more and more New Yorkers are expressing outrage over Gov. Spitzer's plan to give driver's licenses to illegal aliens. At public events across the...
STOPPING INFANT DEATHS
The city Health Department has good news and bad news regarding infant mortality in the five boroughs. The good: The city's overall infant-mortality rate fell to 5.9 deaths per 1,000...
IRAQ: THE LONELY WAR
BAGHDAD A WAR has probably never been so debated and so little understood as the one in Iraq. "The domestic political debate has nothing to do with what we're doing...
BUILDING FOR THE REAL FUTURE
LAST Friday, the Sen ate approved the nomination of Ma rine Lt.-Gen. James Mattis as the next commander of U.S. Joint Forces Command. This is great news - because it...
PARTY POOPERS
"Were the expense of war to be defrayed always by a revenue raised within the year . . . wars would in general be more speedily concluded, and less wantonly...
BLACKWATER: LAWYERS' LUNCH
A MONTH after voters last year had given Democrats control that would elevate Nancy Pelosi as speaker of the House, she received a letter from a trial law yer in...
SHE MEDALS IN CHEATING BUT CAN'T OUT-RUN TRUTH
Well done, Marion Jones ("One Classy Confession," Editorial, Oct. 6). Like Barry Bonds, you betrayed our trust as you robbed the glory from others, but at least you gave the...
'HARDBALL' HYPOCRISY
Does anyone else see a pattern here? Yes, Chris Matthews is tough on Republicans, but he gets to host a Republican Party presidential debate ("An Immoderate Moderator," Editorial, Oct. 6)....
GOOGLE EXECS TAKE $600 STOCK TO BANK
Google shares climbed past $600 yesterday for the first time, crowning its two co-founders and their CEO as the richest troika running any corporation anywhere. The surge in the stock...
AUSSIE RULES TRADE
Like a rowdy football pileup, Australia's dollar also pounced on the downed greenback after it had already been knocked flat a week earlier by Canada's own strong dollar. The dollar-family...
WHO'S BEN CHATTING WITH ABOUT THE ECONOMY?
IS this any way to run a country? The government on Friday reported the employment numbers for September and they were better than Wall Street expected, which caused a rally...
HIP-HOP HOLD UP
The sale of beaten-down, gangster-rap label Death Row Records is being held up because prospective buyers are unclear as to what assets the bankrupt label founded by Marion "Suge" Knight...
TOWER POWER
The Big Apple is in the midst of a building boom that over the next 25 years will change the face of the city and create so many new office...
TIVO AND RHAPSODY CREATE BEAUTIFUL MUSIC
TiVo and Rhapsody are joining forces to deliver digital music service directly to TiVo consumers' televisions via the digital video recording company's set-top box. The move, expected to be announced...
NOT SO MAD ON MAD AVE.
STROLL along Madison Avenue between 57th and 79th streets and you'll see more store vacancies and "space available" signs than in years - not quite a lot, but more than...
SALLIE SUES FLOWERS OVER $25B BUYOUT
The battle between billionaire J. Christopher Flowers and Sallie Mae appears headed for a courtroom showdown after the nation's largest student lender filed a lawsuit late last night in Delaware...
FALL TO FINALLY DESCEND ON NEW YORK CITY
It looks fall will finally descend upon New York City today, as temperatures are expected to drop dramatically as a cold front moves in from the Midwest. A cold front...
BLOOMBERG, GIULIANI MAKE PITCH TO KEEP TORRE
Pinstripe politicos Mayor Bloomberg and Rudy Giuliani today made a last-ditch one-two pitch to Yankees boss George Steinbrenner to keep on old pal Joe Torre as manager. "If I owned...
SPORTS SHORTS
BASEBALL: Cuban wants to buy CubsMark Cuban, the Dallas Mavericks owner known for noisily cheering his NBA team and berating officials from courtside, reiterated strong interest yesterday in owning the...
'CAT' WINS PEBBLES
Reminder: Belmont is dark today, tomorrow; racing resumes Thurs. Queen Joanne, one of three 5-2 shots on board in field of seven, circled field with wide, bold rush around far...
HOSSA, JAROMIR REUNITED
It seems that a Grade 2 shoulder separation for Sean Avery (expected to be out four weeks) is turning into a second chance for Marcel Hossa. As Tom Renney's Rangers...
FLOOD OF MEMORIES
COLUMBIA, S.C. - Cannot tell you how pumped I am the Knicks and 76ers decided to open their exhibition season here. I have a habit of never passing up an...
HONDO HORSING AROUND
Hondo tumbled into the red last night when Romo and Co. showed no respect for the point spread in Buf falo, leaving him 55 zisks below the equator. Today, as...
GOTTA MAKE USC NO. 1 (FOR MOST SHOCKING 'L')
MEMO to LSU: Don't overlook Kentucky next week. Memo to Cal: Don't overlook Oregon State. Memo to South Florida: Don't overlook Connecticut - well, at least not completely. In the...
RED SOX ON DECK FOR TRIBE
ANAHEIM - With his team celebrating behind him, Theo Epstein stood in the Boston clubhouse speaking to reporters Sunday when Manny Ramirez snuck up behind him with a bucket of...
BYRD GETS JOB DONE FOR WEDGE
The smart money said to bring in C.C. Sabathia on short rest to try to snuff the Yankees. But Cleveland manager Eric Wedge played the hand he was dealt all...
CLEVELAND'S PEN WAS MIGHTIER
ka-3There were drives home from the ballpark last season - drives that seemed ungodly long - where Indians GM Mark Shapiro looked at the big picture for the Tribe. The...
DEVS NEED WAKE-UP CALL
KANATA, Ont. - They're each on pace for 27.3 points this season. If Patrik Elias and Dainius Zubrus only score at that rate, the Devils will think one victory out...
BIG BLUE HAS ALL THE RIGHT MOVES
THE quarterback can make all the throws, has improved his accuracy, and is on the upswing. The head coach seems to have hired the right defensive coordinator at the right...
SUPER SECONDARY
QUARTERBACKS C+ Eli Manning (13 of 25, 186 yards, 2 TDs, 1 INT) needed a big second half to recover from first-half rating of 0.0. Too many lulls and must...
LATE BLOOMER
How Plaxico Burress goes, so goes the Giants offense. No team or player wants to be known as a slow-starter, but Burress and the Giants are in that rut. A...
TOOMER'S CATCH-LESS DAY UPSETS ELI
Amani Toomer holds the Giants record with at least one reception in 98 consecutive games. When he failed to come up with a catch in the 35-24 victory over the...
BAD TURNOVER WRECKS ISLES
After scoring four goals in his first two games as an Islander, Mike Comrie showed he isn't perfect. A costly turnover in the Isles' zone was picked off by former...
NO SECOND EFFORT
QUARTERBACKS D Chad Pennington (21-36, 229 yards, 1 TD, 3 INTs, 51.7 rating) threw three debilitating picks that cost the Jets the game. He was effective between the 20s, but...
JET TOGETHER
Consistency is the watchword right now for the Jets, who after Sunday's maddening 35-24 loss to the Giants stand at 1-4 with their season teetering on the brink of garbage...
COLES: BLAME ME FOR LATEST LOSS
Laveranues Coles, who takes his Jets captaincy very seriously, stood in the middle of the Jets locker room yesterday in the aftermath of their 35-24 loss to the Giants and...
EDDY RX: 2 WEEKS ON SHELF
COLUMBIA, S.C. - The Knicks' season did not implode yesterday. Eddy Curry - who injured his shoulder Friday during a drill - is expected to be back for the opener...
FRANK MAKES 'POINT' TO NETS
Nets coach Lawrence Frank gave players off from practice yesterday, but that doesn't mean they weren't still learning. They took a ride up the Palisades and paid a visit to...
BOSS KEEPS LIPS ZIPPED
Since serving Joe Torre with an ultimatum this past weekend that his manager didn't heed, George Steinbrenner has zipped his lips in regards to Torre's future. Sunday, he refused to...
THE BEST MAN
JOE TORRE receives one last second-guess for the road, for starting a pitcher on three days' rest who didn't last the second inning. Even if the alternative, Mike Mussina, who...
MAYOR: JOE'S A 1ST-RATE MANAGER
One prominent baseball fan has a hard time believing George Steinbrenner is really considering firing Joe Torre. "Joe Torre is one of the great managers, and he could manage anything,"...
JOBA SET TO EMBRACE UNCERTAIN FUTURE
Joba Chamberlain doesn't know if his future includes pitching out of the bullpen, but he can say without hesitation that he loved the opportunity he received setting up Mariano Rivera...
DON SAYS 'CONGRATS' TO YANKEE SKIPPER
After the Yankees' season ended last night, Don Mattingly offered Joe Torre kudos. "I told him congratulations," Mattingly said. "He did a great job." Following the Yankees' almost stunning 6-4...
COULD BE THE END FOR OLD GUARD
Twelve years ago, both Mariano Rivera and Jorge Posada debuted for the Yankees, and they've been stalwarts through four championship seasons and nine other postseason appearances. But now the issue...
ALEX: IT'SONME
THE eyes were runny and red, and Alex Rodriguez tried to make light of that, said it had come from an all-night bender. He wore a designer T-shirt with "ROYALTY"...
IT WAS A WANG NUMBER
Chien-Ming Wang must still be trying to figure out what hit him. Wang wasn't so much the Yankees' ace in the hole last night as the guy who dug it....
GODZILLA FAR FROM MONSTER
In the third inning last night, Hideki Matsui came up with a man on. He produced a groundout. In the fifth, he came up with another man on. He produced...
DEREK'S FLAT FALL
Death, taxes, Derek Jeter producing in the postseason. You can remove the last component from that list. Jeter disappeared for the AL Division Series, just part of the reason the...
IT'S AN INDIAN BUMMER
According to several people with knowledge of the situation, Joe Torre's fate will be decided in a few days. And when it is, it's highly likely that George Steinbrenner won't...
NO MAGIC, NO MOJO, AND MAYBE NOW, NO JOE
IT WAS slow, agonizingly slow. The last night of this Yankee campaign was drawn out, an anguishing march toward the end. Of a season and almost certainly an era. Joe...
WILD WORLD
ALONG a rutted track in a high mountain reserve, just outside central Italy's Parco Nazionale D'Abruzzo, sheep farmer Nunzio Marcelli takes us out late one afternoon on a journey -...
MARKET VALUES
TAKE a stroll under the bright metal awnings of South Philly's storied Italian Market (on 9th Street between Catherine and Wharton) and you'll likely end up with bags stuffed with...
NEWS AND NOTES
* TAKE TO THE WATER A gondola ride through Venice is considered a major tourist faux pas these days, thanks to a rash of bad press for the gondolier, whom...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
To call it the great pumpkin would be a gross understatement. Thad Starr of Oregon won this year's Moon Bay pumpkin festival with a gourd that weighed in at a...
CHECKING IN: Italian style
Hotel Straf, MilanThe days of settling for overpriced frumpery in destinations such as Venice and Rome are on the wane, as a wave of smart style sweeps through the lodging...