November 24, 2007
Isiah invokes Al Davis
November 24, 2007 | 6:51pmBy MARC BERMANIsiah Thomas said he didnât need a public vote of confidence from owner James Dolan, who was not in attendance for todayâs Chicago matinee, his baseline seats left...
Seattle Recap, Wee Hours Edition
November 24, 2007 | 11:30amBy FRED KERBERJason Kidd spoke the Nets going home a .500 team.Some thought he was a loony. But now, it's possible, for many reasons. But three, a Big Three, above...
GO-GO DO GOOD
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amTIS (almost) the season for the holidays - and with it, a big ol' helping of guilt - the self-imposed kind. You'd love to do more to help people, really....
SWEET CHARITY
November 24, 2007 | 10:00am1. Help a soldier have a good holiday; check out anysoldier.com to buy items off their wish lists. 2. Before you make another click, check out goodshop.com. This site makes...
TEEN ANGELS
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amWANT to put the "give" back in Thanksgiving? There are plenty of ways to help your fellow New Yorkers, no matter how young you are. Take Ben Rothschild of the...
WHAT'S UP
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amTODAY THE WHITE STUFF: If the snow can't fall fast enough for you, get a frosty fix at the New York Hall of Science's Crystal Winter Village. Have a family...
'BERT' & ERNIE
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amEVERYBODY needs a grandpa for Christmas - right? So Hallmark Channel, the folks whose own corporate grandpa brought you the Hallmark Card (and invented a bunch of holidays to go...
GRACE NOTE: BOTH TWINS HOME
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amNANCY Grace now has both of her twins at home. Lucy Elizabeth, a preemie born Nov. 4 with brother John David, is home from the hospital today for the first...
COACH EDDIE'S LEGACY
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amWHEN people compare football to religion, it's usually an unfortunate exaggeration - but not when it comes to Grambling and legendary savior Eddie Robinson. "We thought he had a contract...
TODAYS BIRTHDAY
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amA full moon on your birthday means you must not allow other people, not even those you love and respect, to dictate what you think, say or do. You are...
TAMIFLU TRAGEDY IN 'MANIC' MED
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amThe two most common drugs used to treat and prevent the flu may have been a factor in the deaths of 25 children worldwide and caused bizarre psychiatric side effects,...
B'WAY TALKS REOPENING
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amBroadway theater producers and striking stagehands have decided to return to the negotiating table following another week of shuttered shows, officials said yesterday. Labor talks broke off last Sunday when...
'HANDS-ON' SUPERVISOR AXED
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amA 21-year city employee is losing her job for being way too touchy-feely. In a ruling last week, Administrative Law Judge Kevin Casey upheld a decision by the Human Resources...
WILD PARK PEDI-CADS
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amSwarms of pedicabs have invaded Central Park, causing so many tie-ups and headaches that New Yorkers say they make aggressive Rollerbladers and horse-drawn carriages seem like model citizens. The mass...
BALLOON'S 'INFLATED' $5M PRICE
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amSkip the museums and pricey galleries next Thanksgiving - the balloons in the Macy's parade might be a better multimillion-dollar art show. Although famed painter/sculptor Jeff Koons' giant silver rabbit...
BUYER 'BLACK' I$ BEAUTIFUL
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amThey came, they saw, they spent. Bargain hunters and spendthrifts alike stormed the city yesterday to scoop up deeply discounted designer duds, electronics and jewelry by the armful on Black...
'MANSION SLAY' KIN IN SHOCK
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amThe grieving family of a businessman slain allegedly by his wife inside the luxurious Long Island "dream house" he bought for her cannot fathom a reason behind the bizarre newlywed...
YULE TREES A WALLET $HAKER
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amOh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree, how expensive are your needles? Shoppers will have to fork over more for the Yule evergreen this year because of increased freight and fueling...
DOCTOR IS IN ON B'WAY!
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amWith a flourish of his green, furry fingers, the Grinch himself flung open the doors of the St. James Theatre yesterday, ending the musical's 13-day, strike-induced blackout. "They hadn't stopped...
HAIRBALL HELL
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amForget Rolaids, nothing short of Drano could cure this girl's stomach ache. The 18-year-old was diagnosed with a rare condition in which a 10-pound hairball big enough to clog a...
BRIDGE-DEATH 'SIGN' SLAP
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amBetter signage on the Manhattan Bridge could have saved the life of a cyclist killed when he rode his bike into traffic, a state legislator said yesterday. Sam Khaled Hindy,...
TOWN IS SAYING NO TO FREED SEX FIEND
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amPreppy rapist Alex Kelly was released from a Connecticut prison yesterday after serving 10 years, and some residents of his tony hometown said they don't want the former fugitive sex...
HUNT FOR CLUES IN TRANNY SLAY
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amPolice are searching for the killer of "Sugar Bear," a professional drag queen from Brooklyn - whose head was found frozen in the ice of a Long Island pond by...
MAN NAILED IN '05 MURDER
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amA man who cops initially fingered as a robbery suspect was instead charged with another crime: the murder of a Brooklyn man two years ago, police sources said yesterday. Anthony...
RAP-CLUB SLAY
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amA 25-year-old Brooklyn man was savagely stabbed to death yesterday at the troubled Flatiron District nightclub Duvet, where police believe he had been partying with thugged-out rapper Fabolous. Police responded...
IT'S THE RIGHT TIME FOR MIDNIGHT AT AQUEDUCT
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amToday's Holiday Fest at Aqueduct is the final big day of racing in New York this year - or perhaps any year, if the steamrollers and obstructionists in Albany don't...
TIME AND TIDE: GAL OF 95 IS TITANIC'S SOLE SURVIVOR
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amAfter the Oscar-winning movie and dozens of PBS re-enactments, there remains but one survivor of the sinking of the Titanic. Elizabeth Dean, 95, of Southampton, England, was only 2 months...
SHIP'S ICY DOOM
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amA cruise ship sank off the coast of Antarctica yesterday after it struck chunks of submerged ice that tore a fist-sized hole into the vessel and sent freezing water pouring...
FOREIGN INVADERS CASH IN
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amScores of pound-powerful Brits - and plenty of other deep-pocketed euro-cash tourists - swooped into the stores yesterday and made off with massive bargains thanks to the dismal dollar. Big...
SYRIA'S BEST PAL
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amEmile Lahoud capped a 32-year military career and controversial presidency of Lebanon by being snubbed by the West and embraced by Syria and Hezbollah terrorists. Lahoud, a Maronite Catholic, was...
SAUDIS: WE'LL BE AT BUSH SUMMIT
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amSaudi Arabia and more than a dozen other Arab and Muslim nations yesterday agreed to attend an unprecedented Mideast summit in the United States next week - but not to...
RUDY-RIPPING THOMPSON TRASHES APPLE
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amWASHINGTON - Fred Thompson said yesterday New York City isn't a model for the rest of the country and that Republican rival Rudy Giuliani should stop basing his stances on...
'BLAME U.S. FOR 9/11' IDIOTS IN MAJORITY
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amNearly two-thirds of Americans believe the federal government had warnings about 9/11 but decided to ignore them, a national survey found. And that's not the only conspiracy theory with a...
CITY EYES FLA.-BUILT FIREBOATS
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amThe city has chosen a Florida company to build a $54 million pair of state-of-the-art fireboats to patrol New York Harbor. If approved by the city's Office of Management and...
ARUBA 3 SNAGGED BY THE WIRE
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amBombshell wiretaps of the prime suspects in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway allegedly provided prosecutors with the evidence they were seeking to rearrest the three men they have long suspected...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amSTATEN ISLAND A New Dorp taxi passenger was busted after he refused to pay for a ride from Manhattan to Rosebank, authorities sad yesterday. Michael Shearin, 33, had instructed the...
LOTTERY
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amNEW YORK Midday Nos. Fri.: 398; Lucky Sum: 20 / Midday Win-4 Fri.: 4129; Lucky Sum: 16 / Evening Nos. Fri.: 839; Lucky Sum: 20; Evening Win-4 Fri.: 1929; Lucky...
. . . AND THE UN COMES CLEAN
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amMeanwhile, UNAIDS, the agency coor dinating United Nations AIDS activ ities, admitted this week that it has been overestimating the spread of the disease by as much as 15 percent:...
DEBBIE'S DUBIOUS DEFIANCE
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amAnother controversy, another lawsuit. This time it's Dhabah "Debbie" Al montaser - ex-principal of the Khalil Gibran International Academy, the Arabic-centered public school in Brooklyn - seeking a payday in...
QUINN SHOWS COURAGE . . .
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amCity Council Speaker Christine Quinn's showed genuine responsi bility in standing up to the tidal wave of entitlement demands that continues to assault the city treasury - and left-wing AIDS...
OBAMA ABJURES LOBBYIST LOVE
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amWHEN a prominent Washington lobbyist expressed a desire last week to attend Sen. Barack Obama's next fund-raiser, he was politely told: "Thanks, but no thanks." The lobbyist had been impressed...
WHO'S EXTREME?
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amAS the hopeless but en ergetic presidential campaign of Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) builds momentum in name recognition, fundraising and cross-ideology appeal, some conservatives are beginning to attack him in...
RUDY'S POLICE PRESENCE: A FORCE AT THE POLLS?
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amMake no mistake about it - the overwhelming majority of NYPD officers have no love for Rudy Giuliani ("Rudy & NYC's Cops," Adam Brodsky, PostOpinion, Nov. 19). The police backed...
COLUMBIA'S CASH
November 24, 2007 | 10:00am"Columbia's Cave-In" (Editorial, Nov. 17) is based on a number of factual misconceptions. The relevant faculty committees on undergraduate education have been working for the past year on proposed enhancements...
MARTS DINE ON LEFTOVERS; DOW CLIMBS 181 PTS.
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amWall Street went shopping for its own Black Friday bargains yesterday - snapping up depressed retail and financial stocks to lift markets out of a post-holiday slump. In very thin...
DO OR DIE FOR CD
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amThe slumping CD is facing a make-or-break Christmas. As the music industry enters the biggest sales period of the year with the kickoff of the holiday shopping blitz, its core...
COUNTRYWIDE WOES MOUNT
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amInvestors in Countrywide Financial, the nation's largest mortgage lender, have been taken on a wild ride over the last month. This week, Countrywide was forced to publicly deny rumors that...
AGGIES STOMP ON BUCKEYES
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amNot much can match how horrible Texas A&M made Ohio State look last night during the Aggies' 70-47 victory in the championship game of the NIT Season Tip-Off at Madison...
VOLS, HORNS 'ROCK' SOLID
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amWith three of the four schools involved in the inaugural Legends Classic clearly focused on football this weekend, you could understand the subdued atmosphere inside the Prudential Center. Texas, Tennessee...
SPORTS SHORTS
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amTRACK: Marion's marks expunge-worthy All of Marion Jones' results dating to September 2000, including her Olympic and world championship titles, were annulled yesterday because of doping. Track and field's governing...
PIGSKIN PROFIT
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amVIRGINIA TECH at VIRGINIALine: Virginia Tech by 3 1/2. Angle: Rivalries fall into several categories, and there is no question what fuels the one between the Hokies and the Cavaliers...
BRODEUR, DEVS THRASH ATLANTA
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amATLANTA - First came his 500-victory milestone, and now Martin Brodeur has resumed his assault on hockey's all-time shutout record. The Vezina Trophy holder is back, and that means the...
TRENCH WARFARE
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amIf Chris Snee really wanted to study and analyze what lies ahead, the reaction could be one of intimidation. The Giants tomorrow face the Vikings, the team that stops the...
AWESOME ADRIAN MAY PLAY
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amIt may just be wishful thinking or a bit of gamesmanship, but either way, the fact the Vikings yesterday upgraded rookie sensation Adrian Peterson to questionable has certainly caught the...
BIG STEP BACK
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amThe most disappointing aspect to the Jets' 34-3 loss to the Cowboys on Thursday was how dramatically Eric Mangini's team backtracked after orchestrating such a solid victory over the Steelers...
NO GOOD ANSWERS
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amQUARTERBACKS: F Kellen Clemens (12-27, 142 yards, one INT, 45.6 rating) struggled throughout. Al though he was pressured, his accuracy was off. Dallas' pick for a TD put the game...
LOAD OF BULL?
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amWith Chicago in town to face the Knicks today, it's only fitting Isiah Thomas was spewing plenty of Bull yesterday. Or maybe he's just Bullish on his chances of surviving...
TEAM LEADER? DON'T ASK STEPH
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amAny wonder why the Knicks are such a mess? Take the issue of leadership. Asked yesterday who the team leader is on the floor, Stephon Marbury declined comment. That's probably...
KRSTIC 'LOST' & 'CONFUSED'
November 24, 2007 | 10:00am"I feel lost," Krstic said. "Confused. I don't know really what to do right now to get really back." Krstic has done a poor impression of the player who shot...
SUPER TONIC FOR NETS
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amSEATTLE - It was light years ago . . . no, wait it was Wednesday . . . when the Nets' chances of coming home from their annual Thanksgiving road...
'O' SO BAD!
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amSUNRISE, Fla. - The Rangers can take solace if they want in getting three points out of four on this two-game Florida swing that opened with a 2-1 victory in...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
November 24, 2007 | 10:00amMight have been worth it to buy the dog a chew toy. An Altoona, Pa., man may have to pay $3,100 to the city after his pooch chewed up three...