January 2, 2008
Fantasy season doesn't have to be over
Not everyone's fantasy league ends before the NFL playoffs begin. There are a few of you who get to juggle fantasy rosters into January.To help you out, both of you,...
Attorney: Clemens risking lawsuit
FOXSports.com's Mark Kriegel reports that the attorney for trainer Brian McNamee says his client may have to sue Roger Clemens if the Yankees star lies about him during a "60...
TANKLEFF DOUBLE MURDER CHARGES DROPPED
Now he's free and clear. Double murder charges against Martin Tankleff will be dropped, Suffolk officials announced today, ending the Long Island man's 20-year battle to clear his name in...
Plax refuses to sit; others progress
By PAUL SCHWARTZIn a morning press briefing, Tom Coughlin stated that receiver Plaxico Burress would not practice later in the afternoon."At this point in time the word from the medical...
Now, the statement could be, "We Still Stink..."
By FRED KERBERYou hate to even think "statement game" or "measuring stick" when there are over 50 of the critters still lurking on the NBA schedule, but isn't that really...
Scene
Media manager Anne Mesnard, visiting from Paris, wears her cute vintage fur coat with a bag by French label Comptoir des Cotonniers, boots by Elite Models and a hat she...
Giants playoffs a tough ticket
The Star-Ledger reports that the Tampa Bay Bucs are restricting ticket sales to Sunday's playoff game against the Giants to residents of Florida, even though the game isn't sold out.
Tickets tough to get
The Star-Ledger reports that the Tampa Bay Bucs are restricting ticket sales to Sunday's playoff game against the Giants to residents of Florida, even though the game isn't sold out.
Marbury will play tonight
By MARC BERMANStephon Marbury will make his third return from bereavement leave tonight when he suits up to face the Kings, according to a Knicks official.The Knicks have upgraded Marbury's...
PAUL MCCARTNEY HAS HEART SURGERY
Paul McCartney had a secret heart operation recently, London's Sun newspaper reported. Doctors performed a coronary angioplasty, which allows for better blood flow by opening arteries. "Paul had been complaining...
CHECKING IN: Flamingo Las Vegas
Have you seen what they did to the rooms at the Flamingo? Pretty wild. This has long been my favorite of the classic properties - so central, close to everything...
STUDENTS HUNG UP ON CELLPHONE RULES
Starting today, New York City public-school students may bring their cellphones to school - but they may not brrring them in. That's the confusing message kids returning from winter break...
POLAR BRRRR GALS
These bathing beauties are red hot, even if they should be ice cold. The costumed revelers plunged into 2008 with an icy dip in the Atlantic yesterday, joining the annual...
'OUCHING' TIGER
A slingshot stunt targeting a tiger at the San Francisco Zoo would have been enough to incite the beast to leap over a 12-foot wall and rush her attackers, the...
$1M COMEBACK AFTER HARASS
A Manhattan executive who won $1.2 million in a sex-harass suit after male co-workers allegedly pawed her is returning to her old job today - even as the boss vows...
DOORWAY-BLAST KID ALREADY UP AND WALKING
The miracle kid shot point-blank in the doorway of his Queens home walked from his hospital bed for the first time since the coldblooded attack, the boy's overjoyed family and...
GIRL, 11, IN SHOOT HORROR
An 11-year-old Bronx girl was shot yesterday after her family's van broke down and they walked right into a New Year's gun battle. Destiny Rosario and six relatives were trying...
SICK AND TIRED AT 'POISON' HS
It's not the students who claim school makes them sick - it's their teachers. Ten instructors at the New School for Arts and Sciences in The Bronx say they've suffered...
TANKLEFF ON A MOUNTAIN HIGH
Martin Tankleff, the Long Island man freed last week after an appeals court overturned his conviction for the 1988 murders of his parents, hit the slopes for his first ski...
FLIERS SNEER AT SO-CALLED RIGHTS
Air passengers say their new "bill of rights" - a list of government-issued guarantees that went into effect yesterday - is as comforting as being stuck in the middle seat...
CONEY BIZMAN'S 'PARKING $PACE'
A controversial developer caught in a game of chicken with the Bloomberg administration over Coney Island's future wants to circumvent a city contract so he can reap hefty profits -...
EVE'S TRASH LITTER-ALLY MASSIVE
A million New Year's revelers trashed Times Square with at least 42 tons of party hats, noisemakers and confetti, which an army of city sanitation workers beautifully swept up yesterday....
CONEY I. DARES TO RINK BIG
The Coney Island board walk boutique owner who led a community fight to keep condos out of the fabled amusement dis trict now wants to enliven the area with a...
'DWI' DRIVER HITS LI BIKE BOY
A Long Island driver allegedly high on booze and drugs ran over a boy riding on his bicycle, police said yesterday. Susan Deturris, 52, was driving to her brother's home...
DRUG COPS KILL MAN AFTER HE PULLS GUN
Two plainclothes Brooklyn detectives shot and killed a man who pulled a gun on them last night during a buy-and-bust drug sweep through the borough's most violent neighborhood, authorities said....
SLAY BELLS RING IN THE NEW YEAR
After 2007 ended with the lowest murder rate in decades, 2008 started with a bloody explosion of death, gore and violence. In just the first five hours of the new...
BENAZIR FORESAW 'VOTE RIG'
The day Benazir Bhutto was assassinated, she planned to reveal how Pakistan's spy agency plotted to rig upcoming elections to defeat her party, top aides said yesterday. Members of Bhutto's...
'KOZY'S DOOZY OF A DAMSEL
He's a twice-divorced French president whose fondness for all things American - including jogging and public displays of affection - has mortified his country's intellectuals. She's a supermodel single mother...
US DIPLO SLAIN IN SUDAN
A US diplomat from Buffalo was shot to death in an apparent ambush in Sudan yesterday while on his way home from a New Year's Eve party. John Granville, 33,...
YANK DROVE WITH NIXED LICENSE
Ex-Yankee home-run hero Jim Leyritz was driving with a suspended license when he allegedly got drunk and smashed into a car driven by a mother of two, killing her, motor...
MAC UNLEASHES GRAPHIC TERROR AD VS. ROMNEY
DES MOINES, Iowa - John McCain yesterday unveiled the scariest ad of the campaign that shows footage of suicide bombings, carnage and Islamic jihadists carrying rifles and the Koran -...
BRAZEN BEAUTY
Little Miss Sunshine she ain't. An Arizona beauty queen has been indicted for allegedly kidnapping, torturing, taunting and biting her former boyfriend. Kumari Fulbright, 25, a law student and Miss...
HAWKEYES TO BUCK-EYES
An unprecedented swell of money is flooding into Iowa for tomorrow's caucuses, with campaigns on track to spend roughly $50 million - a record-setting figure that doubles the staggering per-vote...
YULE FIND REGIFT DEALS ON EBAY
'Tis the season to cash in on unwanted Christmas gifts. Millions of rejected presents - some still in gift-wrapping - are available on eBay. The online auction site yesterday offered...
CAGE A NATIONAL 'TREASURE'
Actor Nicolas Cage celebrated the new year as box-office king, with his latest film netting $55.4 million over the five-day expanded holiday. The extended weekend surge of moviegoers pushed Cage's...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
MANHATTAN A burglar broke into an ATM and made off with $113,200 from a Flatiron District bank, police sources said yesterday. The suspect gained entry to the Bank of America...
BEING SECOND TO NONE COULD KILL HILL
DES MOINES, Iowa - Heading into the final day of campaign ing before Iowa votes tomorrow, Hillary Rodham Clinton still faces one of her thorniest problems in her bid for...
LOTTERY RESULTS
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Tue.: 492; Lucky Sum: 15 / Midday Win-4 Tue.: 6130; Lucky Sum: 10 / Evening Nos. Tue.: 280; Lucky Sum: 10; Evening Win-4 Tue.: 1646; Lucky...
READING SPITZER'S LIPS
It was great to hear Gov. Spitzer last week vow not to raise taxes this year to balance the state budget - but can he live up to his promise?...
COMMISSION FOR SALE
Forget integrity - do Gov. Spitzer and his supposedly "independent" Public Integrity Commission have any shame? As The Post's Fredric U. Dicker reported Monday, Commission Executive Director Herbert Teitelbaum recently...
NO, THINGS AREN'T FALLING APART
THE death of Benazir Bhutto in a suicide-ter ror operation last week has pushed Pakistan, often regarded as a backwater in South Asia, into headlines as never before. There's no...
PERIL IN PAKISTAN: A LEADERSHIP VOID
FOLLOWING the assassina tion of Benazir Bhutto, the leadership of her Pakistan People's Party has descended to her son and oldest child. Bhutto, who headed the party founded and previously...
TERROR ON THE RUN
AS 2007 drew to a close, embarrassed journalists sought to play down American military successes and avoided questioning Democratic presidential contenders about their predictions of inevitable failure in Iraq. Magically,...
'08: MORE WALL STREET WAILING
MORE than two years ago, I wrote: "Invest ment banks must de pend to a much greater extent on the money generated from risk-taking ventures" rather than collecting fees for...
WHITE'S FIRST MISTAKE: PICKING UP A GUN
The Post is quite right in stating that the Suffolk County trial of John White and the events that led up to it were unnecessary, but this does not go...
VOTERS' BLITZ ON RUDY'S AD
Rudy Giuliani compares the 9/11 attacks to Iwo Jima ("Rudy's 9/11 Ad," Dec. 28). How dare this draft-dodging law clerk use these two events, where thousands lost their lives, as...
SUGAR DADDIES
NEW ORLEANS - For the last three seasons, Hawaii quarterback Colt Brennan dazzled college football insomniacs by passing for an NCAA record 131 touchdowns, most of them in the middle...
ORANGE PUNCH MIGHT BE TOUGH TO SWALLOW
Jim Boeheim and Norm Roberts would scoff at any assertion that the first league game of the season was a must-win. Let them scoff. With the quality and depth of...
SPORTS SHORTS
NBA: Odom banned for flagrant foul Lakers forward Lamar Odom was suspended for one game without pay yesterday for committing a flagrant foul in the fourth quarter of his team's...
MOTTAU MAKING MOST OF CHANCE
For some, the New Year means a fresh start. Devil defenseman Mike Mottau already had his this season. Mottau in 2000 won the Hobey Baker Award, the NCAA's hockey version...
COUGHLIN CREDO CARRIED 'EM
WAY BACK in June, at the start of minicamp, Tom Coughlin presented his Giants with a novel concept: Talk Is Cheap, Play the Game. It is a saying he gleaned...
HILLIARD TRULY IKES IT IN TAMPA
AN OLD friend will be waiting for the Giants in Tampa, although he's proven he's not too old and doesn't sound especially friendly when asked to reminisce about his former...
TOUGH TASK AWAITING MANNING
The task on Sunday for Eli Manning is daunting, considering the caliber of the defense he's set to face in the Giants NFC wild-card playoff game. The Buccaneers are the...
IT'S NOT TIME TO SACK CHAD
CHAD Pennington doesn't want to hear this as we ring in the New Year, but he absolutely, positively must remain a Jet in 2008 - whether it's as a starter...
STUDY UP FOR NEXT YEAR
QUARTERBACKS - D Chad Pennington (179-260, 68.8-percent, 1,765 yards, 10 TDs, 9 INTs, 86.1 rating) began the season and threw too many killer INTs en route to the team's 1-7...
FALLING STAR
Isiah Thomas often referred to Eddy Curry last season as an All-Star even though he fell short of making the Eastern squad. Yesterday, Thomas not only said Curry wasn't an...
ZEKE SAYS NO DEALS IN SIGHT
Isiah Thomas made another alarming New Year's resolution yesterday. One day after saying he deserves to stay on as coach, Thomas claimed he doesn't want to make deals at next...
ARTEST: I CAN FIX KNICKS
Ron Artest told The Post he is scheduled to have surgery today in New York on his right elbow to remove bone chips, forcing him to miss his lone Garden...
MO' HOWARD FOR NETS
They have banged and bumped with Shaquille O'Neal. Chased Al Harrington and Rasheed Wallace around the perimeter. Gone against Brad Miller, Brendan Haywood, Andrew Bogut. But now comes the supreme...
IT'S A TRIO OF LIFE
CALGARY - Coach Tom Renney has searched north and south during the first half of the Ranger season, trying to find a center for the east-west Jaromir Jagr. Scott Gomez,...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Talk about clams casino! A Florida man hit the jackpot while dining on a $10 plate of steamed clams. George Brock was eating the clams at a restaurant in Lake...
THE FACTS ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING
This series will look at global warming. What will happen to plants and animals, to cities and beaches? What will happen to humans? HOWcan governments and businesses help? How can...
MEET THE FACE ON $20 BILL
ANDREW Jackson, the wild boy whose father died while his impoverished, Irish-immigrant mother was pregnant with him and was an orphan by age 13, was as unlikely to become president...
PETITION TO KEEP STEWART OFF AIR
LEAVE Jon Stewart alone! An online petition drive to stop Comedy Central from "forcing" Stewart and its companion show, "The Colbert Report," back on the air without their writers is...
TOP OF 'FOODIE' CHAIN
MAKING a magazine into a TV show is like making an éclair out of fish. Technically, they're in the same family - media and food - but it's not an...
'ZOEY' FACES FINALS
FRIDAY is judgment day for Nickelodeon when "Zoey 101" and its knocked-up teen star, Jamie Lynn Spears, return to the air. But even with Britney Spears' 16-year-old sister pregnant with...
'SIMPSONS' CANDIDATE
WITH the race for the White House heating up, what's one more candidate thrown into the mix? No, it's not the Independent front runner you think it is . ....
A LOOK AT FILMS YOU OTTO KNOW
OTTO Preminger rivaled Alfred Hitchcock as Hollywood's best-known director in the 1950s and the 1960s. A hulking figure with a huge, bald head and a heavy German accent, he appeared...
SEASON'S SEATINGS
I called Nobu the other day, got right through on the phone and scored tables for four at 8:45 and 8:30 p.m. on upcoming weeknights. How was that possible? At...
LOVE ME SLENDER
ARE you kicking off the New Year with a little somethin' - somethin' in the way of poundage? Join the club. The weeks of frenzied champagne consumption and snacking on...
CALLS WAITING
Apple Inc. scored with another big Christmas of iPod gift-giving this year, but the reign of dedicated music players may have peaked as competition mounts from cellphones that play tunes...
GIRLS GOING CRAZY - FOR CASUAL VIDEO GAMES
If you think video games are for guys only, you've not been spending much time on Lifetime and Oxygen Web sites lately. TV networks aimed at women are increasingly putting...
A FINANCIAL QUIZ TO GET YOU THROUGH THE NEW YEAR
TODAY I'm giving a pop quiz to see if your financial awareness level is high enough to get you through the New Year. Get out your No. 2 pencils. Question...
MAKE A GOOD 'LIVING'
SPECULATION is swirl ing that Susan Lyne, the CEO and president of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, may be looking to exit the company. The clock started ticking on a one-year...
$1.8B PHH DEAL OFF AS BANKS BAIL
Blackstone's Steve Schwarzman is the latest Wall Street buyout king to see a deal he put together suddenly collapse for lack of bank credit. Schwarzman's bank lenders backed out of...
SMART BUYERS CAN CAPITALIZE ON RIVALS' BAD LUCK
DON'T let a slowdown in the commercial sales market become a disappointment, because in this city, those poised to seize and sit can make fortunes from those less fortunate. A...
'OLD' LANG SYNE
Old-guard billionaires who've seen and done it all - like Warren Buffett, Kirk Kerkorian and Carl Icahn - are grabbing center stage in the deal-making world with their piles of...
LIVEBLOG: Rio for New Year's
Rio de Janeiro ushered in 2008 in the usual fashion. A whopping 1,535 military police and nearly 500 local cops in Copacabana alone. None of whom could stop my camera...
Winter Classic
Sidney Crosby (click to enlarge)It reminded me of playing pond hockey as a kid. From speaking with friends and fans of the game, that feeling was pretty universal and seemed...
SNAPS: Greetings from sunny California!
Road tripping in California - is there any better way to waste these lazy days between Christmas and New Year's? Doesn't matter how many times I see the same places...
GIRL, 11,IN SHOOT HORROR
An 11-year-old girl was shot yesterday when her family walked right into a shootout after their van broke down on the way home from a Bronx New Year's party. Destiny...
BEAUTY IN BOYFRIEND KIDNAP RAP
Little Miss Sunshine, she ain't - an Arizona beauty queen has been indicted for allegedly kidnapping, torturing, taunting and biting her former boyfriend. Kumari Fulbright, a law student and Miss...