January 19, 2008
PEEK AT HOCKEY-MOM 'PARTY GAL'
Meet the Rockland County hockey mom accused of helping teens score booze, drugs and possibly more. Beth Modica, 44, who allegedly threw wild pool parties in her Sloatsburg backyard, offering...
Krstic Actually Smiling
By FRED KERBERBack in November when the Nets came West, Nenad Krstic was about as chipper as your average Timberwolves fan. Krstic was trying to come back from his torn...
4 KILLED IN DAY OF INFERNOS
Four people were killed and three seriously injured - including one man forced to leap through a window - in fires yesterday in Brooklyn and The Bronx. Three of the...
Does Isiah coach defense?
By MARC BERMANMIAMI â As the Knicks trotted off the court at halftime in Washington after allowing 61 points, assistant coach Mark Aguirre muttered, âWe made them work for all...
Yesterday's Practice Notes
So I wanted to get a couple notes down before todayâs matinee up in Boston.Yesterday at practice, as per the usual routine, the whole team is working 2-on-1 breakaways. Here...
Sundance: Hurt's So Good
Friday was a relatively light screening day for me -- three titles, since I doubted I could stay awake through a screening of "Sunshine Cleaning'' that started at 8:30 p.m.,...
SOUTH CAROLINA GETS UGLY
South Carolina Republicans head to the presidential primary polls today - as the candidates prove anew that the state is a place where the old phrase "politics ain't bean bag"...
W'S DUBIOUS RX
Where else but America does it be come a citizen's patriotic duty to face down national economic woes by . . . going shopping? What a country. OK, it hasn't...
BIPARTISAN BUNK
I LIKE Barack Obama. The Clintons, not so much. But the Clintons are right and Obama is wrong. The Obama camp has been trying to suggest, insinuate, whisper or wink...
'08 PACK'S FUTILE REAGAN FANTASY
RONALD Reagan's presidency was a great success. He re built a chaotic US military and helped end the Cold War. Reagan's radical tax cuts in 1981 spurred economic growth and...
RON PAUL'S DARK SIDE
RON Paul is not just a rare politician. The Texas Republican's combination of principle and plainspokenness, which has helped his presidential campaign break fund-raising records while attracting a strikingly diverse...
A HERO & A SHAME
AS a kid growing up in the New York of the early 1960s, I had many heroes to admire - Mickey Mantle, President John Kennedy, the Beatles . . ....
HOUSE HEAVIES SEEK STIMULUS
HOUSE Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Republican Leader John Boehner are working behind the scenes to attempt rare bipartisan cooperation on an economic-stimulus package. Pelosi has urged Democratic House members...
ALL THAT'S UNFIT TO PRINT: VETTING 'PAPER OF RECORD'
Kudos to Ralph Peters for exposing the writers of The New York Times for the frauds and phonies that they are ("Smearing Soldiers," PostOpinion, Jan. 15). The Times and its...
BOBBY FISCHER, 1943-2008
Bobby Fischer, who died yesterday at 64 after decades of hermit-like reclu siveness, was blessed by the chess gods - the sole American to win the game's world championship -...
ROY, TITO SET FOR GARDEN GLOVE AFFAIR
Denial can be a boxer's biggest asset and worst quality. It can make him think he's invincible even when he's especially vulnerable. Denial will be in both corners tonight at...
SPORTS SHORTS
MLB: Mets, Heilman reach deal The Mets and Aaron Heilman agreed on a one-year deal for the reliever at $1.2 million, and the Yankees did the same with Wilson Betemit...
CHARGERS 'COTT' GAME
FOXBOROUGH - Remember Ted Cottrell? He was fired by the Jets as their defensive coordinator after the 2003 season as what many believed was a scapegoat, then he was fired...
DEVS FIZZ, THEN FALL
It was a milestone night in Newark for both coaches, although Brent Sutter's was more of a millstone. Florida's Jacques Martin became the 10th coach in NHL history win 500...
CATCHING FIRE
GREEN BAY, Wis. - Brett Favre wanted Randy Moss. If the Packers beat the Giants tomorrow, the Packers likely will get him - across the field in the Super Bowl...
COUGHLIN GETS HIS MESSAGE ACROSS
When all the practices and meetings and film work are over and done with, when the flight has taken off and landed, when the Giants finally gather together inside their...
CARSON: BLUE NOT BIG AS '86 CREW
Giants legend Harry Carson thinks this year's team has a good shot at getting to the Super Bowl, but doesn't believe they're up to the standard set by his 1986...
KICKIN' IT COLD SCHOOL
One of the most overlooked areas on any football team - the kicking game - could be a major headache for the Giants tomorrow. Green Bay's frigid Lambeau Field, where...
GREEN DAY: VEGAS BETTORS BACK THE PACK
The cheeseheads are flooding Las Vegas with Packer money. "We just went to 7½ [from 7] an hour ago," Robert Walker, sports book director at the MGM Mirage, told The...
GLOVE STORY: ELI PREPARES FOR THE COLD
Eli Manning practiced this week wearing a glove on his left (non-throwing) hand, experimenting with the feel as he prepares for the sub-zero temperatures tomorrow night in Green Bay. "The...
WOODEN ANCHOR
GREEN BAY - Tom Coughlin has been this far before, a stop away from the Super Bowl, a step shy of the game's grandest stage. Twice while with Jacksonville, his...
TIME TO PASS HISTORY TEST
All 45 players wearing a Giants uniform will hear the call to arms, but for some, the call resonates just a bit more loudly. The Giants need everyone if they...
GHOSTS OF LAMBEAU DON'T SCARE BIG BLUE
THEY took off at 1 this afternoon on their United charter. Destination: Super Bowl, with a stopover in Green Bay. And yesterday, 48 hours from Brett Favre and the ghosts...
ISLES DOWN 3 D'S
Islanders' owner Charles Wang said he is pleased his team has won three of its last four and is solidly in the middle of the Eastern Conference playoff race. "I...
CAN'T WIN 'EM ALL!
WASHINGTON - Cancel the championship parade and date at the White House. The Knicks carried their season-high three-game winning streak into the nation's capital last night and saw it vanish...
NO EASY ROAD FOR NETS
LOS ANGELES - Look back to November. The Nets took a superb opportunity and somehow twisted it so that playing at home was as enjoyable as a barbecued steel wool...
RANGERS EYE SURGE OF POWER
In the new whistle-happy NHL, it's not a stretch to say that special teams are at the forefront of Ranger coach Tom Renney's mind. The Rangers are 2-5-1 in their...
ROG OKS 'ROID CHAT
Roger Clemens and a congressional committee have a date. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform invited Clemens to meet privately with its staff next Saturday in advance of...
IF TODAY'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
As a Capricorn you feel you need to make your mark in the world but the message of your birthday chart is that you don't have to be constantly striving...
CON ED SHOCKER: WE'VE MADE STREETS SAFER
Less electricity is leaking from Con Ed-managed light poles and electric switching boxes, the utility said yesterday. Con Ed counted 295 reports of stray electric shocks last year, down from...
SPITZER LETS 215 KILLERS GO LOOSE
ALBANY - Nearly every one of the 225 violent felons authorized for release during Gov. Spitzer's first 11 months in office had been convicted of murder, records made public by...
KEEP TRIAL IN QNS.: BELL GAL
The woman who was to marry Sean Bell the day he was shot outside a Queens strip club when police fired 50 shots at him and his friends urged an...
'TOP'-HEAVY OFFICER A LOAD OF LAUGHS FOR LETTERMAN
Fat cops make an easy target. Late-night TV talk funnyman David Letterman skewered the NYPD Bloat in his Top 10 list Thursday night. Inspired by reports of 500-pound police officer...
NO AMTRAK STRIKE
Amtrak struck a deal with nine labor unions yesterday - much to the relief of LIRR, Metro-North and NJ Transit riders who would have been hard hit by a threatened...
CRACKING DOWN ON 2 NARCS
A cop and a sergeant from the notorious Brooklyn South Narcotics unit were arrested yesterday for stealing cash and drugs from an undercover officer, police said. Sgt. Michael Arenella and...
A DEBT OF GRATITUDE FROM NEW YORKERS
New Yorkers yesterday said they were pleased to hear a rebate check from the feds could soon be on the way - but many planned to bank it or pay...
10G/WEEK WINNER IS WAY GONE
A clerk who won $10,000 a week for the rest of his life in the New York Lottery has flown the coop and gone into hiding. Waleed Alsaidi, 22, didn't...
DRUG STORE
A Bronx pharmacy was dealing drugs under the counter, authorities said yesterday. Cops yesterday bought five bundles of heroin, worth $1,000, from New Pharmacy at 530 E. 170th St., sources...
ICE HOCKEY MA'S WILD KID PARTIES
A Rockland County prosecutor whose husband is a local police chief threw wild booze and bong pool parties for her son's hockey team - and even had intimate relations with...
DISASTER APPROACHING
Air controllers are begging their bosses to fix a routine procedure that puts planes bound for Newark Airport on potentially lethal collision courses - but the Federal Aviation Administration hasn't...
$16M KNOCKOFF RING BAGGED
Customs officials have busted up a major handbag and wallet counterfeiting ring, which made a $16 million windfall smuggling phony Gucci, Coach, Louis Vuitton and Kate Spade items into the...
FEAST & FAMISH
Seven-year-old Nixzmary Brown weighed just 36 pounds when police found her beaten to death on the floor of her Brooklyn apartment. But her family's fridge was anything but empty. Jurors...
ENDGAME FOR MAD GENIUS OF CHESS WORLD
Bobby Fischer, the Brooklyn high-school dropout who became a Cold War icon by beating the Russians at their game - then turned into a paranoid recluse who cheered the 9/11...
STALL & FALL: CRASH JET'S 2 ENGINES 'JUST WENT'
The twin engines of the Boeing 777 that crash-landed at London's Heathrow Airport suddenly broke down two miles from the airport - sending the plane on a frightening 200-foot free...
QAEDA RAT GETS LIFE IN NY PLOT
The leader of an al Qaeda terror cell - who planned bomb attacks on American embassies overseas and who was eyeing New York City's reservoir system - was sentenced to...
TURNS OUT NY'S THE BIG CHEESE
The underdog New York team trounced Wisconsin to win the championship, and Packers fans are hanging their cheeseheads in shame. This is not just a prediction for Sunday's game -...
ELI WILL HAVE LAST LAUGH
He's thrilled that Jerry Seinfeld is playing defense, but Eli Manning said yesterday the Giants' bid for Super Bowl XLII won't be sidelined by some mean Green Bay TV station...
WIS. GOV LOVES JERRY
Eli Manning's not the only one who will miss Jerry and company tonight. Wisconsin's biggest cheese, Gov. Jim Doyle, is a huge fan of the show about nothing and claims...
MIKE IN 'PEROT' CHAT
AUSTIN, Texas - Just minutes after attacking a local reporter yesterday for not accepting his repeated denials that he's a candidate for president, Mayor Bloomberg met with a Texas ballot...
AN 'IRON'IC SUPPORTER
John Chachas, a county commissioner from White Pine, Nev., felt so bad for Hillary Clinton when New Hampshire hecklers told her to "iron my shirt" that he brought a sign...
PARTY-PUSHY HILL
ELKO, Nev. - Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday ripped Barack Obama for calling the Republicans the "party of ideas" on the day before Democrats hold their critical caucuses in Nevada. Clinton...
CLOONEY'S UN DARFUR PEACE BID
The United Nations yesterday unveiled its master plan for stopping the bloodshed in Darfur - George Clooney. The 46-year-old "Syriana" star has been tapped to serve as the UN's new...
L.LO TO SEE DEAD PEOPLE
Lindsay Lohan will tour a Los Angeles morgue this summer as part of a grim, scared-straight lesson about the perils of drunken driving, officials said yesterday. The 21-year-old actress, who...
THE GREAT REBATE
Seeking to stave off a recession, President Bush yesterday threw his support behind a one-time tax-rebate plan that would send checks to millions of Americans as part of a $150...
MAG 'HANGS' NOOSE EDITOR
Golfweek magazine yesterday fired the editor responsible for putting a noose on the cover of its latest issue. It used the image against a purple sky to illustrate the controversy...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
BROOKLYN An off-duty NYPD civilian employee was arrested on drug charges when cops raided her apartment in a Brownsville housing project, cops said yesterday. Brenda Wallace, 46, was busted, along...
I NEARLY BEAT THE GREATEST THERE WAS
I ONCE won Bobby Fisch er's queen for a rook. That's like suddenly getting a five-touchdown lead late in the second half. But I lost. And I knew why it...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Fri.: 798; Lucky Sum: 24 / Midday Win-4 Fri.: 0756; Lucky Sum: 18 / Evening Nos. Fri.: 267; Lucky Sum: 15; Evening Win-4 Fri.: 6364; Lucky...
CHILLY PHILLY RECEPTION FOR FOUNDER OF CARLYLE
Screaming protestors forced the founder of The Carlyle Group from the stage at a prestigious private equity conference yesterday - the latest disruption by a union that represents workers at...
MARTS LIMPTO FINISH
Stocks slid for the fourth straight session yesterday, closing out the worst week for the Standard & Poor's 500 index in five years, as Wall Street shrugged off a plan...
NINTENDO WII-ZZES PAST RIVALS
Nintendo was the high scorer in a record 2007 for the video game business, zooming past rivals Microsoft and Sony in the next-generation console wars thanks to the wild popularity...
SYMS DELIST PLAN FOUGHT
A group of shareholders is suing the board and management at Syms, looking to thwart the off-price clothing retailer's move this week to delist its shares from the New York...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A convicted bank robber who won $1 million in the Massachusetts lottery will be allowed to keep his prize even though he violated his probation by buying the ticket. The...
BROADWAY BABIES
NOT everyone in New York wears jeans to the theater. Some come dressed to the nines - in velvet frocks, patentleather shoes and the occasional tiara. Maybe because those theatergoers...
WHAT'S UP
TODAY LET THE SUN SHINE: John Lithgow hasn't just jumped on the kiddie-entertainment bandwagon - he's been performing, writing, recording and singing for children for years. In his new show,...
HE FINDS HIS VOICE IN FANCY FOOTWORK
CHRIS BROWNIF there were any more pro cessed cheese in Chris Brown's show, he'd have to start calling himself MC Velveeta. At Thursday's Madison Square Garden return engagement (he appeared...
'WITCHY' WOMAN
WHAT did you expect from Hallmark - "Macbeth"? No old crones with warts on their noses and high, conical hats on their heads are seen stirring the contents of great...
WINE& CHEESEHEADS
WHERE are you going to be tomorrow? If you're like many New Yorkers, you'll be plastered to your TV watching the Giants take on Green Bay. But just because you're...
DAYS DOWN UNDER
PUT a shrimp on the barbie, crack open a tinnie of Foster's and say "G'day, USA," because Australia Week is upon us once again. Now that we've gotten those clichés...