October 21, 2007
JETS SNATCH DEFEAT FROM THE JAWS OF VICTORY
Don't blame Chad Pennington solely for this one. He had a lot of help.Kenny Watson ran for 130 yards and three touchdowns in the best performance of his career, and...
X-Rays Negative
By FRED KERBERYup, the X-rays were negative on Malik Allen's left foot. Allen, one of the reasons for the Nets' expected depth up front, went down in practice Sunday, according...
Self Service / Smells
One of the only fashion books that keeps me sane season after season is Self Service Magazine, published by Ezra Petronio out of Paris. It's like my Zoloft or something....
Seinfeld's 'Manhattan'
There is exactly one interesting paragraph in today's New York Times puff piece on Jerry Seinfeld, who is out flogging his animated "Bee Movie.'' I quote: "But Mr. [Chris] Rock,...
'Michael Clayton' Hangs Tough
As I noted here yesterday, there isn't much good news in this weekend's box office returns, which reflect the fifth in a row that sales numbers are down from the...
Houston: My body didn't respond
By MARC BERMANAllan Houston met with the beat writers today to explain his decision to quit Thursday after one week and one game back. (The Knicks announced they were cutting...
At What Point...
At what point in a dismal start to the season should someone begin to worry? Now seven games into the season and the Rangers are 2-4-1 with only 13 goals...
DVD Extra: Colorization Creeps On
The stealth comeback of colorization continues apace with Paramount's release next month of an umpteenth "special'' edition of "It's a Wonderful Life'' containing a new colorized version by Legend Films,...
GO-TO GUY
Dennis Haysbert is into his third season star ring on "The Unit" but the looming presence of his memorable "24" character, President David Palmer, is never far behind. "I will...
10 QUESTIONS FOR HEROES
We love the show. Don't get us wrong. But it's off to a slow start this season. 1. How come Sylar didn't die? Do many people survive Samurai sword impalement?...
I CAN'T KEEP WITH ALL MY TV SHOWS
It has become impossible to watch TV. There is simply too much of it. A person would have to be awake 24 hours a day to keep up with all...
'DIRTY SEXY' UNDERWOOD
Blair Underwood will help "Dirty Sexy Money" finally live up to its name - at least the sexy part - when he starts his run this Wednesday as billionaire inventor...
DON'T MISS LIST
CATEGORY: DRAMA Spy games Chuck (Zachary Levi) faces his first moral dilemma as a spy. When agents Sarah (Yvonne Strahovski) and Casey (Adam Baldwin) refuse to help an unauthorized mission...
'DANCE' CARD
TV personalities are becoming very vocal about wanting to step onto "Dancing With The Stars'" parquet floor. The fifth season is only half over, but already, stars from other ABC/Disney...
REEL GOOD
GUNGA DIN (1939) Monday, 12:30 p.m., TCM This film, based on Rudyard Kipling's epic poem, is an oldie but a goodie that that hasn't been diminished by time. Cary Grant,...
CHANNEL 11'S HATE O'CLOCK NEWS
On Wednesday night, Oct. 10, Ch. 11's local newscast included two stories about suspected hate crimes, two disturbing stories, yet stories presented in two very different ways. The first led...
HERO WORSHIP
The big news this season on NBC's superhero series "Heroes" isn't that Peter Petrelli survived the explosion. Or that Sylar's still alive and killin'. Or even that Hiro Nakamura can't...
HEY, ISN'T THAT...?
While plenty of actors such as Peter Krause and Amy Brenneman, who were closely identified with the shows they starred in ("Six Feet Under" and "Judging Amy," respectively), have landed...
MY NEW YORK
Thomas Wolfe, fuhgeddaboutit - you can go home again, and Chazz Palminteri proves it. The actor-playwright - whose one-man show, "A Bronx Tale," opens on Broadway Thursday night - grew...
ALL'S FAIR IN THE CITY
Like Britney, be country, y'all Galapagos Art Space 70 N. Sixth St., Williamsburg, Brooklyn; 212) 868-4444 There's more than a bit of kitsch to New York City's cowboy scene (read:...
Q&A
His renowned Hannibal devoured people. Now Sir Anthony Hopkins chomps on mind over matter. LONG after most people his age have moved to Florida to play canasta and slowly drive...
NEW RELEASES
Meet the Robinsons Movie: 3 STARS Extras: 2 ½ STARS (Disney, $29.99) The Jetsons meet the Royal Tenenbaums in this animated sci-fi adventure about Lewis, a brilliant orphan-boy inventor who...
FULL DVD PACKET
To perfectly capture the quality of French soil, Stanley Kubrick brought actual samples of earth home with him for screen tests. But that level of obsessive preparation is what you...
THE SOPRANOS: SEASON 6, PART II
The promise of commentary tracks for the final season of "The Sopranos" is enticing. What does David Chase have to say about the notorious diner-scene blackout? How about James Gandolfini...
WEB SLINGER
No Shirts ImprovEverywhere.com Led by actor-comedian Charlie Todd, Improv Everywhere is a loose collective of pranksters producing chaos around the city since 2001. In a previous missions, a horde of...
BEAUTIFUL MUSIC
OK, so your band got into this year's CMJ Music Marathon. And your showcase at Studio B won you a deal with a fat advance. What comes next? New equipment!...
SHUTTERBUG STRIPES
WANT to take pictures with all the grit, funk and raw power of a White Stripes tune? Make like pro shooters who use Lomography's cheaply made plastic cameras to create...
MAD BOBBY'S IDEAS AREN'T ALL CRAZY
CHESS IT'S crazy, but as Bobby Fischer's behavior be came more and more bizarre, his chess ideas seem more sane. Fischer's revolutionary chess clock, which adds increments of time to...
ADOPT ME
Little Jaxs is a toy-size poodle with a big personality. This 10-year-old fella comes with lots of spunk and companionship. Meet him from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the...
TREATS, TRICKS
'Tis the season for New York's animal-welfare groups and assorted pro-pet posses to start fund-raising, and many of this month's festive events have - surprise - a Halloween theme. Before...
TWO'S A CROWD
DEAR DR. FOX: My 17-year-old cat Willie has been an "only child" for most of his life - up until last year, when I took in a stray kitten who's...
GARDEN ANGEL
A 1986 concert turned Kelly Levin into a Bon Jovi fan. But it was cancer that made her a true disciple. Three years ago, the mother of two was diagnosed...
THE 'DEAD' MAN
It's impossible to hear Serj Tankian's majestic pipes - which range from paint peeling screeches to melodic lullabies that could ease the cries of a newborn - and not think...
J. HOLIDAY
AFTER "Bed" spent five weeks atop the R&B singles chart, J. Holiday saw his debut album, "Back of my 'Lac" (as in "Cadillac") debut at No. 4 on Billboard's album...
'REAL LIFE' ETHICS
LET'S hope America's youth isn't getting its morals from the movies. That's what video games are for. Ethically murky situations and characters have a long history in film, and the...
THE 'DEVIL' INSIDE
In Sidney Lumet's new crime thriller, "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead," Philip Seymour Hoffman faces off with Ethan Hawke in a sibling showdown of epic, depressing proportions. But before...
BOLDLY GOING THERE...
After months of speculation about who might fill the campy shoes of Capt. James T. Kirk in J.J. Abrams' new "Star Trek" movie (Matt Damon was an early fave), the...
WHERE, OH WEREWOLF
WEREWOLF? There wolf - at the Two Boots Pioneer Theater, which is hosting an all-night marathon of werewolf flicks for Halloween. The frightfest kicks off at 9 Saturday night with...
MAKING THE SCENE...
Tillman's Bar & Lounge 165 W. 26th St.; (212) 627-832 It's 1970s Harlem in the Flatiron District where this upscale lounge combines the popularity of classic cocktail spots like Milk...
MR. SHORTY'S NEIGHBORHOOD
Shorty's.32 199 Prince St.; (212) 375-8275 In creating the American bistro Shorty's.32, chef Josh Eden's mission was to create "your place around the corner." You know, kind of how Norm...
NIELSEN, 31, AND OSPINA, 31
SEPT. 1 - Susan Ospina is sure to remember her 31st birthday forever, because it now shares the date with her wedding day. "I'm really big on my birthday," the...
KIRSCHBAUM, 25, AND BACH, 25
SEPT. 2 - Little did Dalia Bach know that after she ran the New York Marathon last year there would be a special prize at the finish line."After I finished,...
SCHOTTENHAMEL, 25, AND KHAN, 26
AUG. 17 - High school sweethearts Mallon Khan and Sabrina Schottenhamel knew since they were teenagers that they'd be together, so everything fell into place when they finally exchanged wedding...
WALKER, 27, AND ALLEN, 27
SEPT. 1 - "You might find your Prince Charming if you take that leap of faith," says Cherice Walker, who pursued Joseph Allen after meeting him in class at York...
MAXIMIZING MANHATTAN
Buy land, the old saw goes, they're not making any more of it. But what if they were? What if they added new acres to lower Manhattan? Charles Urstadt, the...
THE NEXT SUBWAY HAZARD
File this under "Look how far we've come." The city Department of Transportation last week announced that it's launching a pilot program aimed at combating that great scourge of city...
BONFIRE OF THE INANITIES
So Pope John Paul II made an appearance in a bonfire lit near his birthplace in Poland to observe the second anniversary of his death. A photographer caught the flames...
SEX AND THE WORLD
After my Lot Airlines flight from New York touched down at Warsaw's Frédéric Chopin Airport a few months back, I watched a middle-aged passenger rush to embrace a waiting younger...
THE BEST OF FRENEMIES
The way the Iranian media narrate it, Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to Tehran last week represented a decisive coup for the Islamic Republic in its duel with the United...
WASTELAND
Having campaigned for more than nine months, with another year to go, Hillary Clinton recently remarked that "I could have had a baby" in the time she's been running for...
BIOLOGY 101
Investment in biotech facilities is not a crap shoot, as you suggest in "Bribing Biotech" (Editorial, Oct. 17). New York City is a world-renowned center of life-sciences research and discovery....
RUFF LIFE
To Marina Batkis of Mutts & Moms Animal Rescue Group: Being an animal rescuer myself, I thought the goal of our rescue efforts was to find these animals safe, loving...
HARD SIX
Page Six stooped to a new low with its attack on New York Magazine writer Vanessa Grigoriadis, impugning her looks and threatening to have staff members have their way with...
LIVE FREE
The growing tide against free trade in the United States must be examined in a country-specific context ("Trade Trouble," Dale McFeatters, PostOpinion, Oct. 16). For instance, a potential free-trade agreement...
UP IN SMOKE
Sen. Martin Golden blames the lack of tax collections on cigarettes at Indians' stores as a source for funding terrorism ("Indian Butts: Terror's Take," Oct. 16). There would be no...
PUTIN'S PAL
Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to dance with the devil in the pale moonlight and shake his finger at the United States about attacking Iran ("Putin's Persian Pals," Oct 18)....
CAR CRASH
Linda Chavez is as blind as a bat, and her main idea in "The UAW's Slow Death" (PostOpinion, Oct. 12) is batty. Not the unions but the auto companies -...
POSH LIFE
Posh means "smart" and "fashionable," and that is what Posh Beckham is ("Hell Yeah!," Oct. 18). Beckham is a walking ad for fashion by being over the top. She is...
GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT, MAC?
"Dude, I invented the friggin' iPod. Have you heard of it?" If those words mean something to you, there's a good chance you've been eagerly awaiting "Options: The Secret Life...
WE DON'T NEED ANOTHER HERO
American political discourse, never particularly vibrant to begin with, has come to this: a self-consciously visionary book by the former head speechwriter for President George W. Bush, the most famously...
REQUIRED READING
The Alphabet from A to Y With Bonus Letter Z! by Steve Martin and Roz Chast (Doubleday) Wild and crazy Steve Martin and zany New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast link...
IN MY LIBRARY
After taking us into the mind of boyish men in books like "High Fidelity" and "About a Boy," Nick Hornby writes about a boy being dragged into manhood. "Slam," Hornby's...
A DAME TO KILL FOR
Gin-swilling women, the sinister, palpable dint of corruption, the longing lives and shattered dreams of Los Angeles: these are the elements readers naturally associate with Raymond Chandler. In novels like...
KILLING TIME
Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell Putnam Both Patricia Cornwell, and her most famous character, Dr. Kay Scarpetta, have traveled a great distance since they appeared together for the...
A PUBLIC AFFAIR
Embattled Cablevision Systems CEO James Dolan is likely to suffer another black eye this Wednesday, with company shareholders expected to reject his fourth and latest attempt to take the cable...
BUTT NOTHING
JENNIFER Lopez sunk to a new J. Lo(w) last week when her attempt to resurrect her recording career failed miserably - just as her August attempt to do the same...
RUSSIA'S PLAYING CHICKEN
Americans may be paying less for poultry this winter thanks to a chicken war that has broken out between the U.S. and Russia. Russia, the largest customer for U.S. chicken...
APPLE, JOBS OPEN UP IPHONE TO OUTSIDE DEVELOPERS
Steve Jobs has a well-known eye for design - but last week he showed he also has an as tute nose for profits. The Apple chief executive, facing touch-screen smart-...
SWEET AND SOUR SULZBERGER WEEK
It should have been a good week for the New York Times-controlling Sulzberger family after they beat back a cantankerous shareholder, ending a two-year battle over the dual-class share system...
THIS WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS
WINNERS JERRY YANG Yahoo! CEO sees shares gets modest pop after reporting a 12 percent rise in revenue, showing it still has life in battle with Google.JOE TORRE After 12...
CONTEMPORARY (ART) MADNESS
Billionaire contemporary art collector Eli Broad, who has amassed an 1,800-piece collection and will have a wing of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma) named after him in...
BIG SALUTE
Wall Street heavyweights including buyout legend Henry Kravis, hedge fund manager Jim Simons, Vanguard founder John Bogle and former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Bill Donaldson will gather at the...
NEW MONEY PUSHING OLD GUARD ASIDE AT AUCTIONS
Art's new superstar investors - Wall Street's hedge fund titans and overseas industrialists looking for bargains thanks to the weak U.S. dollar - are not exactly endearing themselves to the...
CAN'T BANK ON MORTGAGE HOLDER
Dear John: I'm concerned about recent news that GreenPoint Bank was being purchased by North Fork Bank and then both were acquired by another company. The mortgage on my co-op...
PRINCE OF THE CITI WEIGHS HEAVY ON INVESTORS' HEARTS
Imagine being a CEO who can watch the stock of his company rise as his own personal stock falls - this, as investors bet on his impending ouster. Such is...
FOIL PRICEY OIL
Oil hit a record high of $90 per barrel last week, and many experts think it's going to hit $100 in the next year - in fact, Goldman Sachs recently...
PA HOLDING TIGHT TO $650M IN 9/11 WAR
The Port Authority is sitting on $650 million in liability insurance that can help settle the claims of sick World Trade Center recovery workers, The Post has learned. The agency's...
HATE CRIME VS. JEWS ON RISE IN CITY
The number of bias crimes against Jews in New York City soared 15 percent this year, with some blaming the spike on last month's controversial visit from Iranian President Mahmoud...
NEW DIGS FOR RIKERS GALS
The ladies of Rikers Island are getting a new crib. The city is shelling out $125 million to replace the 30-year-old Rose M. Singer jail - the only women's facility...
D-DAY ON STAGING B'WAY STRIKE
Stagehands will vote today on whether to authorize a strike that could shut down most of Broadway - and it's not looking good for theatergoers. "At this point, we're waiting...
'TIMES BARE' GUY HANGS IN THERE
Here's the Times Square nudist the way he'd rather be seen - with his clothes on. "I had a bad day," a smiling Josh Drimmer told The Post yesterday as...
JFK FLIGHTS OF ANTSY
Get set for less convenient schedules at Kennedy Airport, where federal officials might cut the number of takeoffs and landings some hours by 20 percent in hope of improving airlines'...
OP DRUG 'KILLED MY HUSBAND'
Joseph Randone suffered a horrible death because pharmaceutical giant Bayer Corp. hid the lethal side effects of its highly profitable heart-surgery drug, a new suit alleges. The Long Island travel...
FOES RIP MOTOR-VOTER REVERSE
ALBANY - Critics of Gov. Spitzer's plan to let illegal aliens get drivers' licenses tore into the administration yesterday for backing off a policy they say would have made it...
TWIN VS. TWIN TWIST
Frail 81-year-old Naomi Chalk has twin sons: Todd Chalk is a veteran federal DEA agent, and Terrence Chalk is in jail on federal fraud and ID-theft charges. But now Naomi...
70 degrees EQUALS 'FALL' SLUSH FUN
An intrepid ice skater tries to stay dry after slipping yesterday at Central Park's Wollman Rink, which was covered by a layer of slush in the near-70-degree heat. The unseasonably...
HOSPITAL INFO-LEAK BUNGLERS
Looks like data security at St. Vincent's Catholic Medical Center could use a checkup. A breach in the billing department of the Manhattan health-care provider allowed for 100,000 patients' vital...
LOVE MATCHES 'MADE IN HELL'
One woman arrived at a bar to learn her blind date was an alcoholic. Another seeking to meet "athletic" types said her dates were consistently 20 pounds overweight. Yet another...
'SHRINK'-ING IS GROWING
New York's obsession with shrinks is growing. The state has granted 6,600 new mental-health licenses under a new law requiring regulation of psychotherapy. Until two years ago, anyone could hang...
BX. GIRL, 7, IN A FIGHT FOR HER LIFE
A 7-year-old Bronx girl was clinging to life last night after she was struck by a pickup truck in Baychester, cops and witnesses said. "She's my baby!" wailed her anguished...
TWO DEAD IN BOATING ACCIDENT OFF S.I.
Two people were killed last night in a maritime disaster in the waters near the Verrazano Bridge, but good Samaritans in a passing fishing boat and police divers were able...
FIRE KILLS AUTHOR OF '21' BOOK
An elderly author died in a blaze at her Upper East Side apartment yesterday morning. The second-floor apartment of Marilyn Kaytor, 79, went up in flames just before 7 a.m.,...
'DOGFIGHTING' LAIR
Here's the sickening breeding ground of New York City's reputed dogfighting kingpin, where animal activists say pit bulls are turned into vicious killers, destined to fight for their lives in...
2 MOMS, 1 DAD, AND A LAWSUIT
Sadie has a daddy and two mommies - and her adoptive mother is suing the child's biological parents because the unusual family unit was anonymously featured last year in The...
DRINKS, DRAMA, DUEL AS MISSUS MAILER
As Norman Mailer's daughters rally around him at Mount Sinai Hospital, where he's recovering from lung surgery, his second wife told of her decade with the literary lion - a...
THUG TARGETS WOMEN NEAR COLUMBIA U.
Cops are on the hunt for a thug who has terrorized the area around Columbia University robbing - and in several instances beating - at least eight women in the...
GAL FOUND DEAD IN APT. DOWNTOWN
The decomposed body of a Lower East Side woman was found in her kitchen yesterday, the stove left on since her death four days earlier, authorities said. Police made the...
FRANTIC SEARCH FOR ILL MOTHER
For the past six weeks, Rob Corcoran has awoken alone and turned to the empty side of the bed where his wife of 10 years should be lying asleep. "Each...
A BLOOD BOND FORGED IN WAR
AN insurgent posing as an Iraqi patriot had found his way into the Iraqi Army's 5th Battalion. Comrade by comrade, he was feeling out who among the loosely coalesced unit...
ORLANDO BLOOM IN HIT-RUN FLAP
"Lord of the Rings" star Orlando Bloom could face felony charges for briefly leaving the scene of a Hollywood car crash, it was reported yesterday. The LAPD is expected to...
CLINTON DODGES RANGEL
WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton is distancing herself from explosive comments by Harlem congressman Charles Rangel, a key power broker in her campaign, ripping rival Rudy Giuliani's personal life. Referring...
HALF SHUN HILL
Half of likely voters nationwide would never vote for Hillary Rodham Clinton in next year's presidential election, a poll released yesterday reveals. Nearly 50 percent of 10,000 registered voters surveyed...
MCC FLASHBACK
Republican presidential candidate John McCain yesterday razzed Hillary Rodham Clinton for attempting to use federal dollars to fund a museum honoring the drug-laced Woodstock festival. Speaking at an annual Florida...
RUDY IS EASY 'PRAY' AT CONFAB
Rudy Giuliani got trounced in a survey of religious voters yesterday just hours after delivering a speech in which he vowed to reduce abortions and touted his anti-porn crusade in...
BOSS JR. FIRES A SPITBALL AT 'INGRATE' JOE
Flashing some of his father's famous feistiness, Hank Steinbrenner fired back yesterday after hearing Joe Torre say he was insulted by the team's offer to manage the Yankees for a...
ILLEGALS ROAD HAZARDS
Gov. Spitzer's plan to let illegal immigrants get driver's licenses follows failures in two other states where fraud rings and other trouble quickly emerged after the motor vehicle departments welcomed...
MORE TROUBLE FOR COPPERFIELD
Magician David Copperfield's legal troubles involving an alleged rape in the Bahamas might not disappear for quite some time, officials said yesterday. "This investigation will be thorough and will take...
REV. AL PLANS S.I. HATE-CRIME MARCH
The Rev. Al Sharpton will lead marches in Staten Island and Washington, D.C., within the next few weeks to draw more national attention to the recent increase in hate crimes...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
BROOKLYN Two teens were gunned down on a Bushwick street early yesterday, police said. The victims, both 18, were caught in a hail of bullets on Greene Avenue near Patchen...
PUBLIC $ERVICE PAYS TOP COUNCIL EARNER
THE top earner on the City Council pulled in more than $350,000 last year, with the help of pension checks from his previous stint on the council. Recent reports on...
LOTTERY RESULTS
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sat.: 356; Lucky Sum: 14 / Midday Win-4 Sat.: 4754; Lucky Sum: 20 / Evening Nos. Sat.: 310; Lucky Sum: 4 / Evening Win- 4 Sat.:...
TEACH A KID TO HUNT
ONE of the best ways to promote conservation is by getting youngsters off the streets and interested in hunting. Young hunters are the one hope to help preserve wildlife, and...
TEAM TO BEAT
The season's first NASCAR Nextel Cup race at Martinsville foreshadowed the way this year's Chase would be run. Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson were one-two and the rest of the...
HALL'S LATE TDS SPARK CANARSIE
Deandre Hall couldn't catch anything Sha-Tim Pratt threw to him for nearly three quarters yesterday. Balls slipped through Hall's hands, bounced off his chest and richoted off his pads, but...
HONDO TURNS REDDER
The Ol' Ball Coach is just killing Hondo. For the second straight Saturday, Spurrier and his Game cocks weren't game enough to beat the number, which pushed Mr. Aitch deeper...
SO, WINNING ISN'T EVERYTHING
* If winning the World Series really is George Steinbrenner's gold standard, then the Yankees' offer to Joe Torre shouldn't have ended at $8 million for getting to the Series,...
UNION CHIEF CAN'T BOW TO LEAGUE - AGAIN
HERE we go again. Even before the players had finished voting on the nomination of Paul Kelly to become the NHLPA's new executive director, the presumptive leader of the union...
SPORTS SHORTS
MLB: La Russa likely to stay with Cardinals Cardinals manager Tony La Russa expects to return for a 13th season with St. Louis, and may commit to the team before...
WHEW! NO. 1 WINS
COLUMBUS, Ohio - In this unpredictable, at times unbelievable, certainly inexplicable college football season, it seems appropriate that after Ohio State took the field for the first time with the...
THE RUMBLE
PARCELLS IS LO-VIN IT Testaverde may be 'best pure passer' of all Bill Parcells spoke with his old quarterback, Vinny Testaverde, shortly before the 43-year-old signed with the Panthers. Parcells...
GRAND RETURN FOR NUGGETS' KENYON
LOS ANGELES - Kenyon Martin has returned to the NBA's Make Believe Ball room in force following his rehabilitation from a second microfracture surgery. Nobody anticipated a full resurgence -...
AMAZING RACE
OCEANPORT, N.J. - After a summer of quibbling, hedging, skirting and dodging each other, the seven best horses on the planet are set for a showdown in the $5 million...
NINERS FINERGIANTS CAN WIN, COVER IS TOUGHER
TODAY 49ers (+9) over GIANTS: Have landed on Big Blue each of the past four weeks in this space. To their credit, they've taken full advantage of the superior scheduling...
HAIL TO THE CHIEFS
Including the 1997-2006 seasons in The Post, Cat's 12-year record in print stands at 332-270 (55.1 percent) against the spread. THE PICK Chiefs (+21/2) over RAIDERS: Al Davis' kids rang...
RED SOX ROLL DICE IN GAME 7
BOSTON - Just about every pitcher in the ballpark will be on call tonight, but to start it's Daisuke Matsuzaka against Cleveland's Jake Westbrook with a World Series berth at...
SEVENTH SIGN
BOSTON - Raise your hand if you still believe the Indians are going to the World Series. A straw poll taken around Fenway Park in the third inning last night...
LET J.D. STAND FOR JUST DANDY
BOSTON - Dustin Pedroia and Kevin Youkilis pounded Fausto Carmona sinkers into the ground for seeing-eye singles, David Ortiz walked and, boy, were the Red Sox, with the bases loaded...
THE RIGHT CALL
LATE Supreme Court Justice Potter Stew art, asked to define pornography, famously wrote that it's difficult to define "but I know it when I see it." Same goes for great...
GUERIN DOES IT!
It would be a first sign of changing times. If the Devils want to make a practice of spelling Martin Brodeur once when they play three in four nights, results...
JINTS PLAN TO KEEP IT COMIN'
The roll is real, a winning surge bloated to a hefty four games. The opponent arriving at Giants Stadium lugs a three-game losing streak. The Giants today face the 49ers...
SPAGNUOLO, YOU 'D' MAN!
HE IS the little man who has been the giant behind the resurrection of Big Blue. Watch the Giants get after Super Bowl nemesis Trent Dilfer VII seasons later today....
RUN FOR ALL & ALL FOR RUN
There are moments when Eli Manning is on the field and isn't exactly sure to whom he's handing off the ball. If that's not an indicator the Giants have an...
LAW OF THE JUNGLE
CINCINNATI - The Jets' locker room bustled Thursday and Friday. There was an upbeat vibe inside the players' inner sanctuary at Weeb Ewbank Hall as they prepared to play the...
MANGINI, LEWIS RECALL GOOD 'TIME'
CINCINNATI - Eric Mangini and Bengals coach Marvin Lewis are close, having worked together - with offices across the hall from each other - with the Ravens in Baltimore. "We...
REAL MEN OF 'GENIUS
YOU take what the defense gives you, Eric Mangini said three different ways this week, without saying much of anything at all. Asked about the pass-run balance that, thanks to...
COMEBACK KIDDING
The publicity stunt that was Allan Houston's comeback with the Knicks is over, lasting one week, one game and six minutes. Houston, realizing the Knicks had to concentrate on formulating...
NETS AREN'T ALLAN OPTION
When Marcus Williams broke his foot, the chance that Allan Houston would make his comeback with the Nets effectively ended. So Houston tried for a comeback with his former team,...
STUCK IN REVERSE
BOSTON - Seven games in, the Rangers haven't come close to establishing themselves as a team, much less a team to be feared. Maybe it will come, probably it will...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q&A WITH...
The Post's Steve Serby chatted with the Rangers' winger who has won a Stanley Cup with the Avalanche, an NCAA hockey title with Boston University and the Little League World...
CALM AFTER THE STORM
THE last time the sky fell on the Yankees in this way, a reign came out. Joe Torre actually became the manager after the 1995 season amid a Yankees offseason...
PRE-EMPTIVE $TRIKE
While searching for Joe Torre's successor is certainly a big task, it's not the only one in the Yankees' universe. Despite not having a manager, the Yankees are preparing to...
YOGI'S 10-RING CIRCUS UNBEATABLE
REGGIE Jackson is Mr. October. Yogi Berra is Mr. World Series. Another Yankee-less Fall Classic begins Wednesday and Yogi will be watching. No one has more World Series memories than...
BOSSES READY TO GO TO 'MAT'
The Steinbrenner family's top choice to follow Joe Torre will be the first person interviewed for the vacant Yankees' manager's job. Don Mattingly will meet with Yankees brass this week...
TALK OF DONNIE AS MANAGER COULD TURN INTO IDOL SPLATTER
EVER since the Yankees brought Don Mattingly back from his post-retirement Indiana repose, there has been a sense of inevitability surrounding the idea of him managing the team someday. It...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Four police officers investigating a burglary in South Bend, Ind., were overwhelmed by fleas when they entered an infested vacant house. The cops were stopped in their tracks by the...
MEET MARKET
Whether it's scuba diving or mountain hiking, Tanvi's the first one in line. Her man better be right behind her if he wants a shot. Get ready to prove your...
TOP 5 WORST THINGS TO SAY IN BED
"What's your name again?" - Adam "My wife does it better." - George "Is that it?" - Irene "Next." - John "Stop." - Paula
THIS WEEK'S COUPLE
TIFFANY, a 25-year-old specialty pharmaceutical representative, calls Manhattan home. Kevin, a 25-year-old insurance wholesaler, lives across the Hudson in New Jersey. But despite their disparate stomping grounds, when the pair...
MECHANIC JOE TINKERS UNDER MY HOOD
"YOU remind me of my daughter," my philosophizing auto mechanic Joe Thomas told me just days before my big life-changing move from Chicago to New York two years ago. "I...