November 4, 2007
Oscar Watch: 'American Gangster' Opens Gangbusters, but Draws Fire From the Guy Who Crowe Plays
And Cahalan writes that "Roberts says the portrayal of his relationship with his first wife is offensive -- for one, they didn't have a child together, although the film shows...
How much does Isiah deserve to hear it tonight?
By MARC BERMANIt's not even a question: Isiah Thomas gets booed tonight during intros at the home opener, even as quickly as the Knicks public-address announcer has sped through Isiah's...
Kyle on 'The Art of Bore'
My ascerbic fellow Post movie critic and '89 Gulf War veteran Kyle Smithopens fire on the crop of flicks inspired by the current Iraq war in his Sunday Op-Ed column....
Oscar Watch: Tommy Lee's Second
"I don't think it's too violent,'' Tommy Lee Jonestells my esteemed colleague Sara Stewart when asked about the Coens' terrific "No Country for Old Men,'' opening Friday, which could well...
Kim Cattrall, Prisoner of 'Sex'
I've had a thing for Kim Cattrall going all the way back to her role as an oversexed teacher in "Porky's'' (1980). Her subsequent screen career hasn't amounted to much...
Oscar Watch: Let George Do It
Weekly Variety offers a grim post-mortemon the just-ended fall movie season, when an unprecedented parade of star vehicle crashed and burned as audiences stayed home in droves. "The awards race...
ALL ABOUT ME
Soon, we'll be awash in silk, satin and serious attitude. "I am young, raw talent and kind of a big deal," says 21-year-old Christian, a bicoastal fashion designer with radically...
DON'T MISS LIST
CATEGORY: TRUE CRIME Axed to death Crime novels are more popular than ever, it seems. Michael Connelly, Dennis Lehane and Lee Child regularly make the best-seller list. Last season, Court...
ALTAR EGO
Wilhelmina Slater never gives up. In her endless struggle to take over Mode magazine on ABC's "Ugly Betty" the brittle fashionista has been rebuffed and foiled so often that you'd...
MARIA FORGETS WHERE SHE CAME FROM
Funny, how words spoken with serious intent can be so amusing, even laughable. Ex-NBC news anchor Maria Shriver on Oct. 23 told an audience at the annual California Governor and...
REEL GOOD
THE MALTESE FALCON (1941) Sunday, 10 a.m., TCM John Huston's classic noir stars Humphrey Bogart as private eye Sam Spade, whose partner is knocked off while tailing a lug for...
TALK TO ME
Suddenly, it's all about the narrator. Would ABC's "Pushing Daisies" feel like a new-age fairy tale without its amused voiceover? Would The CW's "Gossip Girl" be as deliciously snarky without...
KEYS DOES 'CANE'
Superstar Alicia Keys will steam up the South Beach stage on CBS' "Cane" this Tuesday, singing her hit single "No One," which is number-one on the Billboard R&B chart. "It...
HBO COUPLES' DRAMA TOO INTIMATE TO ENTERTAIN
TV's most puzzling drama series drifts awkwardly to its conclusion this week and next. It's "Tell Me You Love Me," a show neither you nor anyone else you know is...
MY NEW YORK
From her toddler days in Hasidic Williamsburg to growing up in pre-hipster-bait Bushwick, Rosie Perez is an old-school New Yorker through and through. Her credentials were only heightened when she...
TOO SEXY FOR REALITY
America's next top hologram Grand Central Terminal, Vanderbilt Hall Always looking for new ways to cut costs, Target has found a way to hawk its wares without spending a fortune...
ARTIE LANGE
The notion of gruff comedian Artie Lange playing Carnegie Hall is as incongruous as Britney Spears being named Mother of the Year. But Lange, Howard Stern's notoriously hard-partying sidekick, not...
THE BEST OF THE COLBERT REPORT
Tonight! Presidential candidate Stephen Colbert sits for an exclusive, never-before-read interview with The Post about this Tuesday's release of "The Best of the Colbert Report" on DVD!!! Or would, if...
BIG BOX STORIES
Chances are you know somebody who still quotes "Seinfeld." Maybe even a pal who offers Vulcan salutes without irony. Yes, these people can be annoying, but they'll also be easy...
NEW RELEASES
RATATOUILLE Movie: 3 ½ STARS Extras: 2 ½ STARS (Disney $29.99) A Parisian rat with a knack for whipping up three-star meals makes for a fun romp through the kitchen....
WEB SLINGER
"Repo! The Genetic Opera!" youtube.com (search "repo genetic official") After helming every sequel of the "Saw" franchise, director Darren Lynn Bousman had enough juice in Hollywood to make a movie...
SOUNDS COOL
Model D Music System $150,000; steinwaylyngdorf.com Music fans love a good duet: Natalie and Nat "King" Cole, Aerosmith and Run- DMC, Michael Jackson and Eddie Murphy - well, maybe not...
BREEDS IN NEED
WHEN a dog attacks a person, it makes headlines and creates hysteria against the specific canine breed involved. In a predictable pattern, politicians use the incident as a way to...
ASK DR. MICHAEL FOX
DEAR DR. FOX: My neighbor found an opossum in his back yard, and his midsize poodle was barking furiously at it. Instead of putting the poodle inside, the man clubbed...
ADOPT ME
Savannah is a tiny Yorkshire terrier whose quiet, gentle and would love nothing more than to find the right lap for snuggling. Meet her from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m....
NO-NAME GMS AT TOP OF THEIR GAME
CHESS ASK the man in the street who the world chess champion is and, unless the street is in Vishy Anand's India, you'll get a blank stare. Fans blame this...
THE WHO
IN the early years of The Who, Pete Townshend saw himself, drummer Keith Moon and bassist John Entwistle as musical geniuses. Roger Daltrey, meanwhile, was regarded as merely "the singer."...
THE 'RUN' DOWN
WHEN CHRIS BROWN FIRST exclaimed he could "Run It!" back in 2005, the rising R&B star was playfully boasting about his skills on the dance floor. But what the Virginia...
JOHN DOE IS NOT A NOBODY
IT'S almost too perfect that a guy named John Doe should become familiar as an edgy everyman in films such as "Great Balls of Fire!" and "Boogie Nights," as well...
RON LIVINGSTON
Depending on whether you like Mike Judge or Candace Bushnell, Ron Livingston's face probably conjures up one of two reactions: "'Office Space' - best movie ever." Or, "The Post it...
MYSTERY MONSTERS
As every good monster-movie director knows, the biggest chills come from what you can't see. Hence J.J. Abrams' canny approach to marketing his shadowy "Cloverfield," due out in January. The...
LONE STAR
Tommy Lee Jones doesn't appear onscreen until about 20 minutes into "No Country for Old Men," the new film from the Coen brothers. At that point, things have already gotten...
EUGENIA YUAN
"Hello, this is Eugenia," the voice on the telephone purrs. But there is no need for actress Eugenia Yuan to introduce herself, being that she has a sweet, sexy voice...
PROOF POSITIVE
Pomegranates are the new cranberries. Which means "Sex and the City: The Movie" ought to be filled with pomatinis instead of cosmos. The sweet 'n' tart sip comes courtesy of...
MAKING THE SCENE
Butter 415 Lafayette St.; (212) 253-2828As this popular restaurant and bar prepares to celebrate its belated fifth anniversary, the who's-who's and what-happened in the half decade they've enjoyed thus far...
AMERICAN TASTE LAND
Back Forty 190 Avenue B; (212) 388-1990 IF you were living in the early 1900s, your "back 40" would be the undeveloped 40-acre plot of land you used to unwind...
OLSEN, 29, AND CASEY, 36
SEPT. 8 - For a couple that loves the water, Lindenhurst's waterside Chateau La Mer was a perfect reception location. However, following their ceremony at Saint Agnes Cathedral in Rockville...
CHANG, 31, AND VERSOZA, 31
SEPT. 8 - "I always joke that I went to the top of a glacier and came back with a piece of the rock," laughs Jennifer Ayn Versoza, whose then-boyfriend...
LUTHMANN, 26, AND BULLARO, 37
AUG. 25 - It was man's best friend who helped James Bullaro propose to Vanessa Luthmann in November 2006. "We have two dogs, and when I got home that night...
TURCHIN, 36, AND REYES, 30
SEPT. 8 - When it came time for Kenneth Turchin to recite his vows at a private residence in the Hamptons, "The minister asked Ken to repeat after him, and...
MUSIC TO KIM'S EARS
One of New York's leading cultural institutions seems set to get cozy with the most brutal dictator on the planet - and the U.S. State Department couldn't be happier. New...
JUSTICE FOR A NUT JOB
Nobody likes hyperactive lawyers, least of all us. But three cheers anyway for the federal jury in Baltimore that just rendered an $11 million judgment against the odious Rev. Fred...
THE ART OF BORE
Normally Hollywood stars are like goldfish - content to be stared at as they swim through their little castles and contemplate their treasure chests. Ooh, looky! Fresh new gravel! But...
BOOTY CALL
There are the rumors: Odyssey Marine Exploration found the Merchant Royal - or perhaps it's the HMS Sussex - off the coast of Gibraltar this year. Maybe. They've secreted some...
A TALE OF TWO CITIES
New York City is led today by a mayor, Michael Bloomberg, who knows how to compete. He understands how to create wealth from underused assets, as his vast personal fortune,...
HER DELICATE CONDITION
When you're leading the Democratic presidential race, as Sen. Hillary Clinton is, you might expect other candidates to focus their sharpest criticism your way. Yet the spin coming out of...
THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT
If you read Governing magazine (and really, who doesn't?) you may have stumbled across this delightful passage in the September issue, in an article about how Generation Y isn't taking...
YOU'RE NUTS!
With everything going on in the world, The Post chooses to write about squirrel recipes ("Want To Eat Me? Oct. 31)? This is the bottom of the barrel and is...
BEATLEMANIA
Regardless of any actual guilt in the McCartney-Mills saga, I find it odd that the media and people in general would support Sir Paul, the ex-Beatle, in such a vigorous...
CROSS PURPOSES
The city is going to the expense of installing clocks at its intersections to track the behavior of pedestrians ("Pedestrians 'Ticked' Off," Nov. 1). Why? Nobody looks as they cross...
REICH AND WRONG
Far be it for me to make light of a heinous act of vandalism, but the swastika spray-painted on the office door of a Jewish professor at Teacher's College is...
CONGE$TION
Mayor Bloomberg is not pushing congestion pricing for traffic control, but for the revenue ("Pols Split on Mike's Cut$," Nov. 1). There's clear proof in the fact that he has...
STEAMED
There is more than a crack-like flaw in the idea that injured New Yorkers should somehow not be able to seek and recover fair compensation from those responsible for the...
CROSS PURPOSES 2
The Post is wrong to support a Harlem-area church's attempt to open a publicly funded charter school ("Battling Ancient Bigotry," Editorial, Oct. 28). New York law correctly prohibits forced taxpayer...
THE RON & MARGE SHOW
He called her "Margaret," she called him "Ron." And correspondence gathered by NICHOLAS WAPSHOTT for his book on Thatcher and Reagan show an unusually intimate relationship between two politicians who...
PROVING A NEGATIVE
If you like Michael Moore movies, don't buy Ronald Kessler's newest book. It does not heap scorn upon President George W. Bush. It does not inspire panic over "spy programs"...
CLOCK WATCHING
With Friday's employment report showing that the economy created an additional 190,000 new service sector jobs in October, it's the right time to be reading Alex Frankel's eye-opening "Punching In:...
REQUIRED READING
The Dangerous Book for Dogs: A Parody by Rex and Sparky (Villard) The world of books hasn't been the same since "Marley & Me." And this latest dog book will...
IN MY LIBRARY
Lovers of political horse races, Mark Halperin is your handicapper. The founder of The Note, a Web site that is for political junkies what an early morning bottle is for...
FEMME FATALES
In "Co-ed Combat," Kingsley Browne, a professor of law at Wayne State University, makes the provocative argument that women don't belong in the military. They can't handle the physical requirements,...
SWANN IN YOUR HEAD
It's a cliché, but true: man has mapped the surface of the dark side of the moon without ever fully charting his own mind. Yet that's changing. New machines offer...
FIRST FOR THE INN CROWD
There wasn't really a concierge, or even a front desk - and forget about room service - but the first functioning hotel in the United States was right here in...
NETS OFFER GOODY BAGS FOR GUESTS
THE Academy Awards, Golden Globes, Sundance Film Festival and the Emmy Awards have long handed out goody bags stuffed with valuable merch to the celebrities in attendance. Now Allen Sirkin,...
CITI'S BIG BREAK
Citigroup CEO Chuck Prince's future atop the nation's No. 1 bank is under a cloud this weekend and the company's board has called a rare meeting today. Prince, who took...
THIS WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS
WINNERS BRUCE WASSERSTEIN Lazard boss blows away Wall Street estimates with boffo third-quarter profits while crowing about little SIV exposure. KEVIN MARTIN FCC chairman gives apartment dwellers Halloween treat, rules...
DECORATOR DISCOVERS INTERNET, BIG BUCKS
When decorator-to-the-stars John Barman wanted to find a new dining room table for Neil Simon, he did something that used to be unheard of - he looked for it on...
HBO CAN'T WHACK 'THE SOPRANOS'
HBO has a message for Sopranos fans: This thing of ours ain't over 'til we say it's over. The wildly popular series may have aired its final episode 147 days...
MAIN & WALL HURT
The bite out of the Big Apple's tax pie from Wall Street could be downsized by one-third, or roughly $1.09 billion, thanks to the subprime mortgage and credit meltdown, according...
GOOGLE GREETINGS
Wall Street and Main Street can't get enough of Google. When word spread last week that the tech powerhouse is close to announcing its first major foray outside the PC...
THE PLAY'S NOT AN INVESTMENT
Dear John: I am thinking about investing in Broadway shows. Grosses were up 8.9 percent for the year to a total of $939 million, according to Playbill and The League...
IT'S TIME TO NOTICE THE BROKERAGE AND BANKING STOCKS IMPLOSION
MAYOR Bloomberg was handing out over-sized Nestle's Crunch Bars to Manhattan trick-or-treaters at his East Side townhouse last Wednesday evening. In years gone by it might have been Godiva chocolate....
STOLEN DREAMS
Federal regulators are investigating dozens of broker-dealers for allegedly selling seniors and pre-retirees investments with the bogus promise of having higher returns. The investigations, 70 in all involving transactions in...
PAINT GALL: BX. COLLEGE HAWKS GRAFFITI CLASS
Graffiti 101 is being offered at a city college and taught by a tagging legend who's been arrested 17 times including three times for painting graffiti. The 19-week seminar, called...
MORE MTA STAFFERS RIDING MONEY TRAIN
As the MTA fights for a fare hike, the number of agency workers who took home more than $100,000 last year jumped 37 percent - as the agency paid a...
HUNT ON FOR 100G-ROB THUGS WHO KILLED POKER PLAYER
Detectives hunted yesterday for a trio of brazen robbers who killed a New Jersey man in a Flatiron poker room during a $100,000-plus heist that went down like a scene...
FRIENDS AND FAMILY RACING IN GAL'S MEMORY
Beautiful, blond fitness buff Cindy Sherwin was supposed to run in her sixth New York City Marathon today. Instead, 16 of the Manhattan personal trainer's closest friends and relatives will...
TOP RUNNER'S SHOCK DEATH
In the predawn chill, marathoner Ryan Shay set his sights on qualifying for the Olympics - but the dream died with him yesterday morning on the cold Central Park asphalt....
MOLL'S 'G-MAN' TORMENT:
Mob moll Linda Schiro says she sacrificed everything she could to try to do the right thing. Now "I'm sick to my stomach," she said in an interview with The...
FBI HAD 'MAFIA G-MAN'S' BACK: DA
As Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes pursued the botched murder case against ex-FBI agent Lindley DeVecchio, he crossed swords with a formidable foe: the U.S. Justice Department. The FBI paid...
COPS CORRECT GUN-$$ GOOF
Cops apparently misfired in blowing off two siblings who surrendered their dad's illegal firearms under a guns-for-cash amnesty program - and the NYPD has now given the pair their $200...
'HAPPY' KID BELIES MOM ACCUSATION
The day before 4-year- old Michelle Malakov was supposedly crying in her mother's arms and accusing her grandmother of beating her, she playfully mugged for a camera, happily grinning from...
LAST VOW OF TOP BROKER
A HIGH-SPIRITED Linda Stein chatted about art galleries, food, sex and battling alcoholism in a conversation that was likely one of the famed real-estate broker's last, a close friend told...
COPS CHECK BLDG. CREW
The construction firm hired to repair the roof of Linda Stein's upscale co-op building began its work shortly after being issued a permit by the city on Oct. 3, records...
PATIENT LEFT TO DIE
Mount Sinai Hospital failed to check on an injured Westchester firefighter who died choking on his blood less than three days after he was admitted, a state Health Department investigation...
ICE, ICE, BABY!
The 75th annual Radio City Christmas show, opening this Friday, may just require sunglasses. The 80 kickers who comprise the Rockettes chorus line will don stunning new costumes - each...
GOV LOVER GETS TO HANDLE MONEYMAN'S ASSETS
Powerful New Jersey political donor Charles Kushner is back in bed with a Jim McGreevey boyfriend, The Post has learned. Kushner - who helped broker the gay ex-governor's relationship with...
IS YOUR KID THIS SMART?
He started talking at 10 months and just finished reading "Oliver Twist." He knows how to bookmark his favorite sites on the Web and insists on making pancakes Sunday mornings...
WRONG AND WRITE: HOW KILLER BECAME BROOKLYN FOTOG'S ELOQUENT PEN PAL
It was the late '60s, and a rising Brooklyn photographer worked his way inside the Huntsville, Texas, prison called the Walls. What Danny Lyon went in for was a documentary...
MORE HEAT FOR 'STAPH' FIREFIGHTER
A "superbug"-infected rookie firefighter being shunned by his FDNY brethren had gotten the cold shoulder from the department before. The man, whose name is being withheld by The Post, was...
SKIRT AND 'BLAZER'
The skirt was hot - a little too hot, claims a Brooklyn woman suing the popular clothing store Calypso. Terri Bartnicki, 31, an attractive, bespectacled single woman working toward a...
PAKISTAN CRACKS DOWN
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf yesterday declared emergency rule, suspending the constitution, rounding up political opponents and replacing the chief justice of the Supreme Court. Saying the country was threatened by...
BOOTLEGGING BUTTS BOOSTS TERROR: POL
The widespread illegal sale of cigarettes in the United States is pouring millions of dollars into overseas terror organizations Hamas and Hezbollah, Rep. Anthony Weiner warned yesterday Weiner (D-Qns./B'klyn) said...
BULL'S BLING
"Bull's" bling was a bargain. Twenty-three of Salvatore "Sammy Bull" Gravano's confiscated crown jewels brought in $47,150 at an auction yesterday - including a gaudy diamond-encrusted pinkie ring that grabbed...
OBAMA BACKER'S PAPER RIP
Iowa Attorney General and Barack Obama supporter Tom Miller yesterday urged Hillary Rodham Clinton to open up the Clinton Library archives in advance of primary elections. Miller said in a...
EX-PUSHER HELPS FRED GET 'HIGH'
Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson is flying high - his campaign is jet-setting around the country on a convicted drug dealer's private plane. Thompson has been using businessman Philip Martin's...
HILL'S FLIP-FLOPS STUBBING HER TOES
Even if being seen as weak on border security doesn't threaten Hillary Rodham Clinton's lead in early primary states, a reputation as just another flip-flopping Washington politician could, political observers...
SHARPTON GIVES PASS TO ISIAH
The Rev. Al Sharpton has dropped his plans to protest Knicks coach Isiah Thomas at the team's home opener today, after declaring that the basketball bigwig was not guilty of...
GANGING UP ON MOVIE'S 'LIES'
Hit film "American Gangster" whitewashes the seedy story of a ruthless Harlem drug dealer, says the former prosecutor who inspired one of the film's central characters and who cooperated with...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
STATEN ISLAND A Midland Beach man got even with his landlord by flooding his apartment after she called the cops on him, authorities said yesterday. Paul Maldonado, 39, allegedly clogged...
POLS $QUEEZING LOBBYISTS TO BEAT NEW DONATION CAP
MEMBERS of the City Council have gone on a fund-raising rampage to squeeze as much as they can out of lobbyists before a new law kicks in limiting those contributions....
LOTTERY RESULTS
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sat.: 318; Lucky Sum: 12 / Midday Win-4 Sat.: 8818; Lucky Sum: 25 / Evening Nos. Sat.: 161; Lucky Sum: 8; Evening Win- 4 Sat.: 6383;...
DEAD BABY IN QUEENS
A heartless father brutally beat his infant daughter and callously left her to die alone on the floor of their quiet Queens apartment police said yesterday. Peter O'Keefe, 35, was...
FLOUNDER SEASON IN JEOPARDY
IF THE National Marine Fisheries Service has its way, there will be no summer flounder season in New York or New Jersey for the next two years. Summer flounder, or...
SHUFFLED BACK
The Nextel Cup's biggest teams have ruled the 2007 season on the track and in the headlines. Hendrick Motor Sports teammates Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson have dominated the Nextel...
HALL BEIJING-BOUND
For the second time in as many months, a marathon turned tragic as Ryan Shay collapsed during the U.S. men's Olympic marathon trials and passed away. Though Ryan Hall, Dathan...
SPORTS SHORTS
MLB: Russell to manage Pirates John Russell, let go by the Pirates as their third-base coach only two seasons ago, will succeed Jim Tracy as Pittsburgh's manager, a source with...
AQUEDUCT CARD CANCELED
The Aqueduct meeting is less than two weeks old, and already we had the first of what figures to be many weather-related cancellations over the next six months (assuming racing...
RAMS IN PLAYOFFS
Jonte Coven got to Fordham somewhat aware of the tradition of Fordham football, but when Tom Masella became the head coach last year, he made sure Coven and all of...
FORDHAM PREP CAPTURES TITLE
Brendan Cullinan scored in the 19th minute to lead Fordham Prep to a 1-0 win over St. Francis Prep yesterday at St. John's to give the Rams their first CHSAA...
THE RUMBLE
Richter's road back Injured goalie now marathon man When a skull fracture and concussions forced Rangers goalie Mike Richter to retire, he could barely manage a 10-minute walk to the...
TIGERS ROAR BACK
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - In the end, Alabama head coach Nick Saban probably recruited too well for his own good. The former LSU coach personally recruited 17 of the 22 Tigers...
THE FAST & PRESENT
With five women in the field having run under 2:22, the numbers say today's New York City Marathon is the fastest it's ever been, and one of the best races...
DESTINY DENIED
BOSTON - It seemed like a season of destiny, one in which Boston College would prove itself to be a national program while taking its place among this city's championship...
MARATHONER'S STUNNING DEATH A REMINDER: SAVOR EVERY DAY, EVERY STEP
Every step we take in our lives should never be taken for granted. Ryan Shay, world-class marathoner, running in non-taxing, mid-50s temperatures, only 5 ½ miles into marathon trials for...
WASHFUL THINKING
TODAY Redskins (-31/2) over JETS: Like Kellen Clemens, and can envision him working out for Jets - eventually. Not overly enamored of the 'Skins in this spot; the kind of...
BRONCOS NEED TO SUCCEED
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 Broncos (+3) over LIONS: If the 3-4 Broncos...
PAT BASTARDS
It is difficult to remember, but the Patriots were once lovable. Remember Super Bowl XXXVI when they were 14-point underdogs to the Rams? They had a young unknown at quarterback...
AN INSTANT FIX FOR BASEBALL
YES, a TV replay rule for baseball. By all means. How the game was able to survive the last, oh, 140 years, without a TV replay rule defies all good...
IND-IGNITY
INDIANAPOLIS - As hard as it is to believe, much less justify, the tables were turned on the Colts this week. Las Vegas did the turning when it installed the...
PRUCHA 'SHOOTS' DOWN DEVS
Spicing up the rivalry, Ranger Sean Avery added insult to their defeat of the Devils last night. "That bonehead minor-leaguer [David] Clarkson, trying to run at me. But that's fine....
ISLANDERS STILL STIFFING SMITH
IN HIS 40 days and nights as general man ager of the Islanders during the summer of 2006, Neil Smith ran the team's Entry Draft, selecting Minnesota Golden Gopher right...
CLEMENS ERA COMES TO PASS
It's been 42 days since the Jets last tasted victory. That came on September against the still-winless Dolphins, so it almost doesn't count. Today against the 4-3 Redskins, who are...
HAVE PATIENCE WITH GREAT GREEN HOPE
LET us all take the pressure off Kellen Clemens right here and now on the first day of the rest of his career and guarantee that he will not be...
RAVE REVIEWS FOR HARRIS THE HIT MAN
Eric Hicks doesn't remember the exact moment, but the Jets' defensive end remembered being taken aback by what he saw. Hicks, a 10-year NFL veteran, was speaking about rookie linebacker...
ISIAH: BENCHING NO MESSAGE TO STEPH
Isiah Thomas said yesterday he wasn't trying to send a message to Stephon Marbury. It was just a case of Nate Robinson having a big night that kept Marbury on...
FALSE (PROPHET) START
IF Stephon Marbury in deed found Jesus this summer, for his next assignment he might want to locate his man on defense before the Knicks launch their spring offensive. I...
EN GARDEN!
As sure as Joe Torre will follow the money, Isiah Thomas will be booed tonight during player introductions, booed hard and in many respects booed deservedly. Rev. Al Sharpton, in...
KIDD GLOVES ARE OFF
PHILADELPHIA - With his right thigh swollen and sore, Jason Kidd heard a near blasphemous suggestion. He could sit this one out. Yeah, he could also stick his tongue in...
THE BRONX IS BOOING
REMEMBER the night last summer when Pedro Martinez walked back to the pitcher's mound at Fenway Park and the overwhelming majority of Red Sox fans stood and applauded an saluted...
MIGHTY JOE YOUNG
THE 10-year-old boy believed in playing by the rules and listening to his elders. When his coach told him to do something, Joe Girardi always gave it his best shot...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q&A WITH...
The Post's Steve Serby chatted with the 32nd manager of the Yankees about his family, personal and professional influences, and the job ahead. Q: An old-timer you would want on...
DEALER'S CHOICE
Three days from now, Andy Pettitte must tell the Yankees if he is going to exercise his 2008 option. The Yanks' problems could follow soon after. Pettitte has a $16...
24 AND 1, INDEED
STEVE Phillips was ridiculed, ribbed and ripped. He also, as it turns out, was right. At the GM Meetings seven years ago, the then-Met GM sat with Scott Boras to...
SKIPPING DON
* Well, Hank and Hal Steinbrenner took their first baby steps as involved owners of the Yankees and blew their first decision. Don Mattingly should have been the choice for...
MIRAC-AL WIN!
WHEN it was over, when the Islanders had come storming from two goals down to defeat the Penguins 3-2 last night at the old barn on Long Island that was...
BIRTH OF A DYNASTY
This is not the first time that Joe Girardi has had to take over for an incredibly popular figure in New York. It is easy to forget now just how...
PAULA RADCLIFFE WINS NEW YORK CITY MARATHON
Paula Radcliffe outlasted Gete Wami to win the New York City Marathon on Sunday, her first marathon in two years after giving birth in January. Martin Lel of Kenya won...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A family court judge in Richmond, Va., was removed from the bench after several kangaroo-court moments, including flipping a coin to decide a custody case. James Michael Shull was unanimously...
MEET MARKET
She's a performer, and not afraid to beat entertainment out of her man if necessary. Guys, consider this a warning. A date is not complete without a visit to a...
TOP 5 WORST PET NAMES GIVEN BY YOUR SWEETIE
" 'Needle d---' - not cool." - Paul " 'Ugly Betty.'" - Tasha " 'Fatty.'" - Rachael " 'Bugaboo. I think he was trying to be cute, but it made...
FIGHTING FOR HIS AFFECTIONS
ADRIAN, a 25-year-old para-legal, made clear in his profile that he believed in old-fashioned chivalry. However, when he met Liz, a 21-year-old student, she was the one who acted as...
THE BEST OF FRIENDS LIKE TO PLAY NAUGHTY
"MACKENZIE and I have done some serious talking," I e-mail Super Preppy and copy her two days before Halloween. "She is going to buy a sexy nurse outfit like mine....
Isiah's Wife Defends Her Man
Lynn Thomas stood next to her husband Isiah Thomas on Saturday looking like someone tired of going through hell.Lynn Thomas stood next to her husband Isiah Thomas on Saturday looking...
Philly Post Game
By FRED KERBERYes, Kidd was hurting.But the Sixers wound up hurting more. Kidd admitted he had an achy, bruised thigh - courtesy of Luol Deng's opening night knee -- and...