January 3, 2008
A Benchmark Victory
By FRED KERBERHere's a little fun stat: the Nets' bench has scored 40 or more points five times this season. The Nets are 5-0 in those games.The season high came...
ROGER CLEMENS SWEARS HE IS CLEAN
Roger Clemens told "60 Minutes" that his trainer did inject him before, but never with an illegal drug. In an excerpt from Clemens' interview with the news magazine released yesterday,...
Injured Mitchell: "It's frustrating"
LB Kawika Mitchell on trying to play Sunday:"It's frustrating but itâs part of the game," said Mitchell, who has an injured knee. "[Wednesday] I had a little workout, it was...
Tickets available to New Yorkers
APAfter initially saying theyâd only sell tickets for Sundayâs wild-card game between the Giants and Buccaneers to Floridians, Ticketmaster and the Buccaneers backpedalled today following a call from New York...
Brooklyn move will wait
Though expected for months, the Nets officially announced today that their move to Brooklyn will not happen at least until sometime in 2010.
Scene
Brooklyn College student Danielle White looks amazing in the frigid temperatures. She wears a cool plaid vintage coat with oversize buttons from Ebay, fur earmuffs from Century 21, vintage boots...
Actor Admits Paycheck Job!
I don't know whether to be more appalled or impressed that the marketers at 20th Century Fox have persuaded ticketgoers to part with $153 million (through last weekend, making it...
Oscar Watch: New Predictions!
It's a new year and here are new predictions based on the events of the last couple of weeks. The main beneficiaries are "Juno,'' which has been doing gangbusters business...
Recap: Project Runway, Episode 6
Hooray! Finally, a new episode. HeteroKevin is sad and lonely because Steven is gone, but only because they were good friends and roomies, not because he was into dudes or...
Look of the season: Lumberjack Apres Ski.
We found these pictures on Kanye West's blog -- who knew he was into Connect Four? Anyway, he says he's not terribly good at it -- either that or Beyonce's...
Trio misses practice again
By PAUL SCHWARTZThere are rarely medical miracles in football and it doesnât seem as if there will be any this week with the Giants.The three players who were injured in...
SAKAI GETS 50 TO LIFE FOR MURDER
Stephen Sakai was sentenced to 50 years to life for killing an old friend and a fellow bouncer. Sakai was convicted last month for the murder of buddy Wayne Tyson,...
Petigout will "get even," not Sunday
Former Giant Luke Petitgout, out since September with a season-ending knee injury, told the St. Petersburg Times "The way I went out back there wasnât the way I thought I...
Don't hate in 2008
A Happy New Year to you, gentle readers! Since resolutions are made only to be broken, I'm not bothering. Instead, here's a short list of games that I'm looking forward...
60,000 HITTING LESSONS
A lot of books pass my way, and this is the time of year to catch up on baseball reading. Some of these books are instructional and most have something...
Starr Report
Marathon men.Ch. 11's New Year's marathon of "The Honeymooners" finished either first or second in its time period in all key demos - and outperformed its numbers from last year,...
FOURTH-QUARTER MAGIC FOR NETS
ORLANDO, Fla. - The Nets said this would be important. But no, it wasn't a statement game, they insisted. There would be no jumping off a ledge, no sucking on...
KIDD REACHES NEW MILESTONES
ORLANDO, Fla. - Jason Kidd passed Magic Johnson in one category and moved closer to Isiah Thomas in another. Kidd last night became the sixth player in NBA history with...
HAVE FUN WITH FENG SHUI
NEWYorkers are used to living in small spaces. Sometimes a single room serves as a living room, bedroom, study room and dining room. But all that multitasking can create clutter,...
BARROOM PHILOSOPHY FINALLY GETS ITS DUE
CARRIE vs. Samantha. Elvis vs. the Beatles. Angry wolf vs. angry cobra. The most serious debates of our times have always involved two things: alcohol and sitting in a bar....
TIME FOR TOASTY TOES
OH, the weather outside is frightful - but these boots are so delightful. Who'd ever think that sheepskin boots could be sexy? Enter Love From Australia's aptly named "Vixen" boots...
STARR REPORT
Marathon men Ch. 11's New Year's mara thon of "The Honeymoon ers" finished either first or second in its time period in all key demos - and outper formed its...
TILA TAKES 'SHOT 2'
LEAVE it to a guy from New York to break Tila Tequila's heart. Bobby Banhart, 25, from Worcester was picked as the winner last month on MTV's "Shot at Love,"...
WILD BRUNCH
FIGURING that "Cash mere Mafia" was going to be an old-fashioned female-basher like "Desperate Housewives" and as much of a rip-off of "Sex and the City" as possible on network...
'JUDY' RACIAL FLAP
A former "Judge Judy" producer is accusing TV's top judge show of keeping African Americans off the show. Jonathan Sebastien says he was fired from "Judge Judy" last March because...
'OPRAH' NAMES 'GIVERS'
'OPRAH Winfrey Show" regular Nate Berkus will host his mentor's new reality show, "Oprah's Big Give." The show, premiering March 2 on ABC, will also feature judges Jamie Oliver, NFL...
NOWHERE MAN'S MIND GAMES
MARK David Chapman's chilling diary entries and transcripts of his conversations form the basis of "The Killing of John Lennon," an occasionally revealing glimpse inside the mind of Chapman before,...
SPORTS SHORTS
DOPING: Jones asks no prison Former Olympic champion Marion Jones says she has been punished enough and should not have to go to prison for lying about steroids and check...
IT'S SHOWTIME FOR MALIGNAGGI
SHOWTIME is looking to make Paulie Malignaggi a star. "He's a fresh face and an exciting personality," Showtime VP Ken Hershman said yesterday. "I think he's going to be a...
SLOPES ARE RED HOT AT PLATTEKILL
ALL this snow north of the city means the small ski areas are in full swing, and you can get away from the big busy areas for fun on the...
DEVILS KEEP ON ROCK-IN'
The Devils' new home is fast becoming a destination of dread for the rest of the NHL. They've won nine of their last 10 in Newark after beating the Panthers...
O'HARA'S STATUS REMAINS QUESTIONABLE
Guard Chris Snee recalls spraining his medial collateral ligament at Boston College and missing one game. Center Grey Ruegamer said he once suffered the same injury in the NFL and...
NO TIME TO REST
Tampa Bay coach Jon Gruden knew he would be hit with criticism after deciding to pull many of his starters out of a game two weeks ago in San Francisco...
RONDE'S BARBS CHOP DOWN ELI
There might not be another player in the NFL who knows the Giants any better or more intimately than Ronde Barber, who never played a single play for the Giants...
BRANDON IS BIG BLUE'S RAGING BULL
GIANTS fans have been smitten with his bulging muscles, with his bruising Rambo mentality, with his raw power, with his sadistic glee whenever he gets to inflict punishment on reluctant...
GIANTS NOT WORRIED IF TIKI TURNS TRAITOR
Even now - especially now - Tiki Barber casts a giant shadow over the Giants. The coach who influenced his decision to retire, Tom Coughlin, will be scheming against Barber's...
WELCOME MAT'S OUT FOR DIPIETRO'S RETURN
The Islanders made it through three-plus games without Rick DiPietro and closed the gap in the Atlantic Division with five wins in their last six games, but with a match...
THOMAS SPOUTS DELUSIONAL TITLE TALK
In his most over-the-top performance yet, Isiah Thomas guaranteed before last night's disaster vs. Sacramento he was going to win a championship before he's through in New York. Admitting fans...
ISIAH'S VISION A HYPE DREAM
Hours after guaranteeing he would win a championship in New York before he's through here, Isiah Thomas and his Knicks couldn't even win a game against what amounted to a...
STEPHON SHAKES OFF SOME RUST IN RETURN
Stephon Marbury was back out on the court last night after missing most of the past month grieving the death of his father. It was his third comeback attempt after...
ZEKE LIVING IN HIS OWN WORLD
I WANT to live in Isiah Thomas' world. I do. I want to wake up in the morning, and even though the thermometer insists it's 23 degrees in the sun,...
NETS FINDING WINNING FORM
ORLANDO, Fla. - The difference was overwhelmingly apparent. The change in the feeling around the Nets was 180 degrees from their mental makeup through 25 games. Just like their play....
MAGIC'S HOWARD MAKING MARK
ORLANDO, Fla. - The Magic's Dwight Howard turned 22 just 25 days ago. Yesterday, he was named Eastern Conference Player of the Month for the second straight time. He still...
RANGERS 'TRIPPED' OUT WEST
CALGARY - The Rangers played the first 30 minutes last night like a team that had just spent five hours on an airplane. They failed on five-power play attempts, were...
JOE WON'T TAKE SIDES ON ROGER
Joe Torre is extremely close to Roger Clemens, but he opted yesterday not to take Clemens' side in the firestorm that is raging in the aftermath of the Mitchell Report...
IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
Opportunities to move up in the world will be in plentiful supply over the coming 12 months, but will you make the most of them? Sometimes life comes so easily...
CITY TEENS' CIG USE GOING UP IN SMOKE
For the first time in recent history, the smoking rate among high-school students here has dropped below double digits to a remarkably low 8.5 percent, officials announced yesterday. "It has...
BAD 'BRIDGE' WORK PAYS OFF
The former head of a state entity overseeing Brooklyn Bridge Park - who critics blamed for overruns and mounting legal bills - has got a better-paying, $150,000-a-year job at the...
IT'S CAPITAL CHILL AS SPITZ SPURNS ALBANY
ALBANY - Gov. Spitzer spent just 47 nights in the Executive Mansion here in 2007, The Post has learned. All told, his aides said in response to inquiries from The...
TEACHERS HANGING UP ON CELLPHONE BAN
The Department of Education appears to be taking a "don't ask, don't tell" approach to its ban on students bringing cellphones into the classroom. Administrators at public middle and high...
ASTOR JUDGE DISREGARDS PLEA BY DA
A judge has ordered depositions in the battle over Brooke Astor's $190 million estate to go forward, despite Manhattan prosecutors' request the case be put on ice until criminal charges...
TRAGIC ESCAPE GOAT
A "by the book" New Jersey jail guard, apparently distraught over having his reputation dragged through the mud in a taunting thank-you note left by a pair of escaped inmates,...
LI INSURER'S AUTO CRASH
For the second year in a row, a Long Island company has fared worst on a state ranking of auto insurance complaints. The Long Island Insurance Co. of Melville had...
MANHATTAN DEFIES $LUMP
Don't let a slumping stock market shaken by a steep downturn in the national housing market fool you - Manhattan real estate is still red-hot. The average sales price of...
A LITTLE PIECE OF HEAVEN FOR JUST $1.4 MIL
Wondering what $1.4 million can get you in Manhattan's hyper-inflated real estate market? Try this renovated five-room prewar condo in Midtown, with two bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a separate dining...
THIS THUG SHOT KID AT DOOR
Cops yesterday released this sketch of the gunman who shot an 11-year-old boy in the doorway of the youngster's Queens home. The image shows a youth, 16 to 18 years...
END OF AN ERROR
Martin Tankleff's nightmare is over. The Long Island man won't be retried for the murder of his parents, prosecutors said yesterday as they suddenly ended his harrowing, decades-long battle to...
BRAVEST SAVE B'KLYN BABIES
Two toddlers miraculously survived an early evening blaze in Brooklyn yesterday after they were left home alone, officials said. Firefighters plucked the soot-covered girls, 1- and 2-year-old from a burning...
SHOT BX. GAL 'FINE'
An 11-year-old Bronx girl is "doing fine" after being grazed in the back of the head by a bullet when she and her family walked into a New Year's Day...
PANTA-LOON 'RAPIST' IN COURT PLOY
The homeless ex-con charged with raping and torturing a Columbia grad student came to court yesterday wearing his jeans and polo shirt inside out - more proof, his lawyer says,...
SWASTIKAS IN BROOKLYN
A Brooklyn community with the Big Apple's largest concentration of Holocaust survivors was rocked yesterday for a second straight day by neo-Nazi vandalism. The latest incident was at Agudath Israel...
JEWELRY ACTRESS: I WASN'T PORN YESTERDAY
A TV host who's shown getting hot and bothered by a necklace in an online ad isn't faking it now. In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, the woman, identified...
SLAIN THUG WANTED AS COP-KILLER
The gunman killed by cops Tuesday night in Brooklyn was an FBI fugitive wanted for shooting a Georgia cop in the head, police said yesterday. Darin Richardson was shot twice...
JEWEL HEIST ORDEAL
A Brooklyn jeweler was kidnapped on New Year's Eve by two gun-toting thugs who forced him to drive to his warehouse, then grabbed more than $1 million worth of baubles,...
MUSHARRAF OKS BRIT PROBE OF BHUTTO SLAY
In what is seen as a stalling tactic to hold on to power longer, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf yesterday gave his OK to have Scotland Yard assist in the investigation...
JENNIFER'S MUY SEXI
Getting in shape obviously isn't a New Year's resolu tion for Jennifer An iston. The former "Friends" star's bikini body looked as tight as ever as she was caught frolicking...
MIKE BLASTS CANDIDATES
Mayor Bloomberg firmly declared yesterday that he's not running for the White House - three times - but that didn't stop him from attacking the entire presidential field for allegedly...
OSAMA STARS IN GIULIANI TERROR AD
DES MOINES, Iowa - Rudy Giuliani yesterday unleashed an ad featuring Osama bin Laden and the charred remains of the World Trade Center to make the case that he's tested...
CLINTON'S LAST LICKS & LAST LAUGHS
Hillary Rodham Clinton took a moment out of her final day campaigning in the Iowa caucus to welcome David Letterman back to TV - with a joke. "Dave has been...
HILL FINDS 3'S A TOUGH CROWD
Hillary Rodham Clinton was running neck and neck with rivals Barack Obama and John Edwards last night in the nation's first 2008 presidential contest, as the nail-biting hopefuls planned to...
TAMPA TELLS GIANTS TICKET SEEKERS: BUC OFF
These tickets ain't for you, Big Blue! The Buccaneers are sacking Giants fans' hopes of seeing Sunday's wildcard game in Tampa - by forbidding all non-Florida residents from purchasing the...
RAGE AT LEYRITZ
The shattered family of a beautiful Florida mom killed in a car crash caused by allegedly drunken ex-Yankee Jim Leyritz was joined last night by more than 300 mourners who...
TALL ORDER FOR DEADLY BARRIER
San Francisco Zoo officials promised yesterday to raise the wall surrounding the grotto where a tiger escaped on Christmas Day and fatally mauled a teen. Meanwhile, police denied that two...
BEAUTY SHOT TO HELL
She looked gorgeous carrying a gun - but then she had to bite the bullet. Former beauty queen Kumari Fulbright, who posed for a racy 2008 calendar wearing a sexy...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
MANHATTAN A woman who claimed she wanted to have sex with a taxi driver was arrested after she swiped $150 from him near Union Square, authorities said yesterday. Catherine Patterson,...
LATE TV GETS COMIC RELIEF
BOTH of their mono logues were hilari ous, but David Let terman needed an entire staff to write his, while Jay Leno wrote his all by himself. Advantage: Leno! The...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Wed.: 426; Lucky Sum: 12 / Midday Win-4 Wed.: 1984; Lucky Sum: 22 / Evening Nos. Wed.: 863; Lucky Sum: 17; Evening Win-4 Wed.: 3832; Lucky...
THE BUNGLERS ARE BACK
One hundred thirty-eight days. That's how long it's been since Aug. 18, when a hellish blaze at the former Deutsche Bank building killed two firefighters and temporarily (or so New...
TIME OUT IN PAKISTAN
Though the stated reasons are a bit sus pect, the decision to postpone Paki stan's parliamentary elections - originally scheduled for next Tuesday - by 40 days in the wake...
RANGEL THE REAGANITE
"I was in South Carolina recently, and a [black] guy brought me his grandson and said he was so excited to have the kid shake the hand of the chairman...
IRAN'S DANGEROUS NUKE GAME
IRAN turned up the heat this week on still-sim mering concerns about its atomic aspirations. It crowed that its 1,000-megawatt Bushehr nuclear-power plant would be "online" as early as this...
DEATH BY TRIANGULATION?
SEN. Hillary Clinton faces tonight's Iowa caucuses not as the inevitable Demo cratic presidential nominee but seriously challenged by Sen. Barack Obama, thanks in no small part to committing a...
EYES ON IOWA: WHAT THEY NEED
THE Iowa caucuses mean dif ferent things for different candidates. Of course, Bar ack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John Edwards, among the Democrats, and Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney, among...
MEMO TO MAYOR MIKE: PUT ON RUNNING SHOES
THE ISSUE: Whether New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg should run for president. I applaud your editorial encouraging Mayor Bloomberg to test the waters for an independent presidential run ("Jog,...
E-MAIL ENIGMA
Your article about the effort by the state Senate to obtain and review the personal e-mails of government employees and their families is deeply troubling ("Gov. Stonewalls e-Mail Hunters," Dec....
OVER A BARREL
Welcome to the most expensive year ever for energy - with $100 a barrel crude expected for a long visit, eating up an added $500 billion of scarce consumer cash...
NEW YEAR'S HANGOVER GREETS STREET
Wall Street stumbled in its worst-ever start for a new year, distracted by a recession looming in the wings as prices inch higher across the economy. The Dow Jones industrial...
IT'S TIME TO PLAY 'GUESS THE EMPLOYMENT NUMBER'
WHAT if tomorrow's employment report is too strong? Wall Street thinks that only 75,000 new jobs were created in December. And on the surface that's a very reasonable estimate considering...
ON THE ROCKS
Richard Breeden, the former SEC Chairman-turned-shareholder activist, nearly doubled his stake in Zale, but the struggling middle-market jeweler's shares are still sinking. Breeden Capital Management, a Greenwich, Conn.-based hedge fund...
PHAT CHANCE
Private-equity fund Sun Capital Partners may be readying a new weapon in its battle to acquire the beleaguered apparel maker Kellwood. The Florida-based buyout fund - whose $544 million offer...
FALTERING TOWER
IT'S good news the Port Authority finished most of the bathtub job at ground zero on time, and that Larry Silverstein will be able to start construction on towers 3...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
An Arizona man has a home where the buffalo roam - and got trampled for it. The unidentified 75-year- old saddled up a buffalo on his ranch north of Phoenix...
Dolan cares more about scoreboard than score
By MARC BERMANAfter Knicks owner James Dolan meets with Isiah Thomas after games, Dolan usually walks out of the arena through an entrance opposite the media horde. Tonight Dolan walked...
Western Woes Begin
Depending on how you watch hockey, tonightâs 4-3 loss in Calgary may have been an easy game to watch, or one that explains the ulcers and high blood pressure of...
QUICK FIXES FOR THE NEW YEAR
So, another year is upon us and that "Rosy Red" paint didn't quite turn out to be the color you wanted on your bedroom walls. Sometimes, repainting your living room...
OH, PIONEERS!
Meet the suburban pioneers - folks who've migrated to edgy, diverse towns in the Hudson Valley where you can nab a house for less than $350,000. And like SoHo in...
TWICE AS SIRIUS
Howard Stern wants to give his bride-to-be, Beth Ostrosky, some space. So he's paid $15.1 million for the apartment directly below his West Side condo. Building sources say the ultra-wealthy...
JUST SOLD!
ManhattanCHELSEA $1,265,000 77 Seventh Ave. Two-bedroom, two-bath co-op, 1,300 square feet, with dining alcove; Vermeer building features doorman, concierge, garage, planted roof deck and laundry. Maintenance $1,307, 40 percent tax-deductible....
HOUSES OF THE WEEK
Ditmas Park, Brooklyn $1.35 millionBedrooms: 7 Bathrooms: 21/2 Square feet: 3,500This "magnificent" 1910 Victorian packs all the grandeur of a country home into this corner lot on East 21st Street....
DREAM HOMES
Armonk, NY $3.45 million This custom-built stone-and-stucco Colonial might not be a real palace, but with 14 rooms spread out over 5,660 square feet (not including the almost 2,500 square...
IN 2008, PRUDENCE MAKES PERFECT!
Compared to the rest of the nation, real-estate prices in New York have been relatively stable - at least so far. However, since the "F" word on everyone's lips no...
Wagons West
The Rangers are in Calgary and the game is underway. Due to the time difference, this game is one for night owls or just anyone with a desire to see...
Thomas talks title
By MARC BERMANIsiah Thomas outdid himself tonight, predicting a championship before he's through. The quotes are so over the top, you have to wonder his motivation.âI believe one day we...