January 29, 2008

PATS FIRE BACK AT BURRESS

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- By the time the Patriots arrived at University of Phoenix Stadium for the annual Super Bowl Media Day circus, they were well aware of the Plaxico Burress...

METS DEAL FOR JOHAN SANTANA

USA Today reports the MetsNew York Mets have agreed to a deal to acquire Johan Santana from the Twins, giving up four prospects to acquire the left-handed ace, according to...

METS MAKE DEAL FOR JOHAN

The New York Mets were described by multiple officials late this afternoon as on the brink of completing a trade with the Twins for Johan Santana with one executive who...

KIDD'S PLAYIN'

Jason Kidd remained in the Nets starting lineup tonight against Milwaukee, as his team attempted to snap a nine-game losing streak, but his days with the team could be numbered...

Knicks rooting for Giants

Plaxico Burress, today at Super Bowl Media Day, revelaed that other pro teams in New York are rooting for the Giants, too.“I got a text from Nate Robinson, you know,...

PATS FIRE BACK AT BURRESS

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- By the time the Patriots arrived at University of Phoenix Stadium for the annual Super Bowl Media Day circus, they were well aware of the Plaxico Burress...

METS DEAL FOR JOHAN SANTANA

USA Today reports the MetsNew York Mets have agreed to a deal to acquire Johan Santana from the Twins, giving up four prospects to acquire the left-handed ace, according to...

METS MAKE DEAL FOR JOHAN

The New York Mets were described by multiple officials late this afternoon as on the brink of completing a trade with the Twins for Johan Santana with one executive who...

Pettitte's meeting moved

APYankees pitcher Andy Pettitte’s meeting with a congressional committee investigating drug use in baseball was postponed until Monday.He originally was slated to appear for a deposition or transcribed interview tomorrow....

What. A. Man.

Sigh.We know he really loves her, but seeing David rock Posh's MJ tee is too much for us to handle.You can get the T-shirt -- to benefit NYU's skin cancer...

METS DEAL FOR JOHAN SANTANA

USA Today reports the MetsNew York Mets have agreed to a deal to acquire Johan Santana from the Twins, giving up four prospects to acquire the left-handed ace, according to...

METS MAKE DEAL FOR JOHAN

The New York Mets were described by multiple officials late this afternoon as on the brink of completing a trade with the Twins for Johan Santana with one executive who...

METS MAKE DEAL FOR SANTANA

By JOEL SHERMANThe Mets today completed a trade with the Twins for Johan Santana for four prospects. The deal is pending a contract extension for the ace left-hander, who also...

At least Curry's not Kwame

By MARC BERMANLOS ANGELES - Eddy Curry and Kwame Brown each worked out together in LA before the draft six years ago, two dominant high school big men sharing the...

Kidd at shootaround

APJason Kidd, who says "it's time to move on" from the Nets, attended today's morning shootaround but did not talk to reporters. The Nets, losers of nine in a row,...

Scene

Actress Babi Jonas wears a gorgeous dusty rose dress with clear sequins by Rosae Nichols with matte pink Christian Louboutin heels. Her style is "eclectic and global. "I'm Brazilian so...

NCAA Bracket Projection

By BRIAN COSTELLOSelection Sunday is seven weeks away. It's time to start talking NCAA tournament.Here is the first bracket projection I've done this year. I will try to do this...

'Cloverfield' Chasing Another Record

If "Cloverfield" -- which plummeted 68 percent at the box office over the weekend, a sure sign of lethal word-of-mouth -- fails to make it to $100 million domestic, it...

Levinson Gets Another Shot at Comeback

Barry Levinson's "What Just Happened'' underwhelmed critics and buyers at the Sundance Film Festival -- the $30 million Robert DeNiro Hollywood comedy is still for sale -- but that didn't...

Starr Report: Judy's benchmark

Judy Sheindlin has inked a deal that will keep her on the top-rated "Judge Judy" through 2012. "Judge Judy," which has been TV's number-one court show since the Clinton Administration...

LISTS: Where my five stars at?

So many resorts, so few stars: Four Seasons Maui is the only Mobil Five Star property in Hawaii. It has now been the better part of a decade since Arizona...

Reality TV Tryouts

How to get your 15 seconds of fame.Valentine’s Day ProposalNot a reality show, but if you’re planning to pop the question in time for Valentine’s Day, you can do so...

MOZILO 'GIVES BACK' $37.5M IN BENEFITS

Just days ahead of facing a Congressional probe of his outsized pay, Angelo Mozilo has abruptly volunteered to slash his rewards by more than half. The 69-year-old head of Countrywide...

SEARS SOCK'D AGAIN

Sears Holdings booted its CEO, a former fast-food executive, as billionaire Chairman Eddie Lampert faces increasing heat over the direction of the struggling retailer. Aylwin B. Lewis, who oversaw years...

Captain Kidd You Not

By FRED KERBERJason Kidd at last has said the obvious: get me outta here.Kidd confirmed to ESPN.com that he indeed has told his agent Jeff Schwartz to talk to Nets...

IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY

You will work long and hard to earn the success that you crave and the second half of the year will bring the kind of rewards you hardly dare dream...

FREEDOM TOWER EATERY WILL BE TALL ORDER

Talk about high-end dining. Evoking memories of the World Trade Center-topping Windows on the World, the Port Authority yesterday unveiled plans to lure a restaurant and banquet hall to the...

MIKE SLAMS SPITZ FOR $HORTING CITY

ALBANY - Mayor Bloomberg yesterday accused Gov. Spitzer of reneging on promised funding that could threaten school construction, and labeled as "chutzpah" one of the governor's budget proposals that Hizzoner...

MTA'S $900M BOONDOGGLE

=The MTA has taken New Yorkers for a multimillion-dollar ride. The promised $750 million Fulton Street transit hub - a soaring glass-domed building that was going to be the showplace...

SPORTS BARS SET UP FOR BIG $CORE

City sports bars and restaurants will be cheering - even if the Giants lose the big game to the Patriots on Sunday. "It's a matchup made in heaven - both...

TIMES BOOK TRUMPETS PATS WIN

The two-faced New York Times is shamefully showing its true Super Bowl colors - with a soon-to-be-released paperback claiming that the New England Patriots won the championship. Staffers at the...

LIBRARY LOOTER CAUGHT

ALBANY - A sharp-eyed Civil War buff from Virginia was credited yesterday with blowing the whistle on a New York State Library archivist who was busted for stealing hundreds of...

WRESTLER GETS JUST 'DESSERT'

There's always room for Jell-O, but not necessarily for Jell-O wrestling lawsuits. A Manhattan judge has thrown out a student's $1 million suit against NYU over injuries he received while...

'CLOSE' CALL DELAYS TRIAL

A dispute over whether a mystery witness testifies in open court or behind closed doors delayed the Nixzmary Brown murder trial for a fourth straight day yesterday. The explanation by...

BUILDER CAN NIX NETS PLAN

Bruce Ratner can pull out of his $4 billion Atlantic Yards project for Brooklyn without penalty, The Post has learned. That's because the developer never signed binding contracts for the...

THUG SLEW VICTIM, 81, ON GROUND

The mugger hit him when he was down. A beloved 81-year-old Inwood man had already collapsed to the floor of his apartment elevator when he suffered the blows that claimed...

SICKO POSES AS HEATH'S FATHER

A twisted impostor pretending to be Heath Ledger's grieving dad cruelly duped superstar Tom Cruise into consoling him over the phone - and nearly got John Travolta to buy him...

STEAMROLL SPITZER IS AT IT AGAIN

ALBANY - Gov. Spitzer and an aide privately threatened the Business Council after it criticized his record-high budget, backed a Senate GOP economic package, and hinted it would support a...

CONS GOT A BREAK

The cells of two New Jersey inmates who staged an elaborate, Hollywood-style escape had not been searched for more than two months before they busted out, officials revealed yesterday. Prison...

'CREST'-FALLEN

A Long Island thief who stole teeth-whitening strips is not smiling today - after he was arrested for trading the strips for heroin, police said. Tony Prince, 38, of Hempstead...

'SIS OF LIFE' MIRACLE

A Queens man received the gift of life from his beloved sister, who saved him twice - once by getting him on dialysis, and again by giving him her kidneys...

PAIR ADMIT 200G JFK ICE-CAPADE

A couple of not-so-clever jewel thieves pleaded guilty yesterday to swiping more than $200,000 worth of diamonds from Kennedy Airport. Cargo handlers Richard Lombardo and Steve Tsihlas, both longtime employees...

'STERIOD' DRUGGIST KILLS SELF

An owner of a troubled Brooklyn pharmacy linked to an NYPD steroid scandal fatally shot himself last night, leaving a note begging his wife's forgiveness, authorities said. John Rossi, 56,...

TANKLEFF IN COLLEGE

Hoping eventually to become a lawyer, Martin Tankleff began his first day of classes as a Hofstra University student yesterday - an education paid for by his father, whom he...

DOMINATRIX GETS OFF EASY

A dominatrix from Martha Stewart's hometown of Bedford received a slap on the wrist from whipped authorities yesterday. Sandra Chemero, a middle-aged S&M mistress, had been charged with prostitution and...

HE NEVER HEARD IT COMING

The hero Mount Vernon police officer gunned down by four Westchester County cops may not have heard the officers yell for him to drop his gun because they were standing...

FOXY'S 'EAR-LY' BID FAILS

Foxy Brown has lost her latest bid to get out of jail early. A Manhattan judge has rejected the rascally rapper's claim that she must be sprung immediately so she...

BIDDER UP FOR FORD

Whitey Ford was known as the "money pitcher" on the great Yankee teams of the '50s and '60s - now he's looking to cash in on his storied career. Ford...

PSYCH HOSP ENTERS REHAB

The Manhattan Psychiatric Center is undergoing intensive therapy of its own after federal officials cut off funding because of serious threats to patient safety and well-being. As reported in yesterday's...

MOZILO 'GIVES BACK' $37.5M IN BENEFITS

Just days ahead of facing a Congressional probe of his outsized pay, Angelo Mozilo has abruptly volunteered to slash his rewards by more than half. The 69-year-old head of Countrywide...

SEARS SOCK'D AGAIN

Sears Holdings booted its CEO, a former fast-food executive, as billionaire Chairman Eddie Lampert faces increasing heat over the direction of the struggling retailer. Aylwin B. Lewis, who oversaw years...

HI-DEF TV SCREENS ARE HITTING PAY DIRT

The biggest winners in the Super Bowl may be electronics stores, where flat-panel high-definition TVs are flying off the shelves faster than Plaxico Burress running for the end zone. The...

A WELCOME DESERT OASIS

The New York Giants yesterday touched down in Super Bowl territory, where each player was welcomed with a silver Cadillac Escalade, special dishes of buffalo and rabbit - and a...

I'LL RESTRAIN MYSELF: MOSS

Patriots bad boy Randy Moss yesterday agreed to continue to steer clear of a Florida gal pal who says he beat her. "Randy's most important priority right now is to...

RUDY HINTS FLA. IS HIS LAST STAND

FORT MYERS, Fla. - Rudy Giuliani hinted yesterday that he might quit the race for president if he loses badly in today's Florida primary. "When it's Wednesday morning, we'll make...

BARACK'S BACKER IS JAILED

The feds arrested political fund-raiser and Sen. Barack Obama-backer Antoin "Tony" Rezko yesterday after a judge - calling him a possible flight risk - revoked his $2 million bond. Rezko,...

POLLS COULD SUPERCHARGE HILL AND MCCAIN

The charge toward Super Tuesday has Hillary Clinton and John McCain leading in the delegate-rich states of New York and California, polls released yesterday showed. Clinton leads her home state...

TEDDY READY FOR PREZ OBAMA

WASHINGTON - Sen. Ted Kennedy passed the torch to Barack Obama yesterday and invoked the hopeful era of Camelot - then took a flamethrower to Bill and Hillary Clinton's politics...

BABS BLABS ABOUT BRITNEY SEEING A SHRINK

Britney Spears has been undergoing psychiatric therapy for a "treatable" mental disorder, Barbara Walters said yesterday. Walters, den mother for the ABC gabfest "The View," said on the show that...

TERROR ON THE RUN

WASHINGTON - President Bush declared in his final State of the Union Address last night that while naysayers at home are second-guessing his strategy for winning the war in Iraq,...

B'KLYN SUBWAY HERO & THE PREZ

WASHINGTON - The young Brooklyn Muslim who risked his life last month to defend Jewish strangers from a gang of subway goons got to watch in person last night as...

NYPD DAILY BLOTTER

BROOKLYN A Park Slope bar patron was arrested after he brutally beat a man for saying the New England Patriots were going to win the Super Bowl, police said yesterday....

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A DISASTER FROM THE GET-GO

YESTERDAY, the MTA fi nally admitted what $900 million (and counting) in public money for the Fulton Street Transit Center has bought us: a rat-infested, vacant lot. That's what now...

LOTTERY

NEW YORK Midday Nos. Mon.: 277; Lucky Sum: 16 / Midday Win-4 Mon.: 8774; Lucky Sum: 26 / Evening Nos. Mon.: 207; Lucky Sum: 9; Evening Win-4 Mon.: 9397; Lucky...

TAKEN FOR A RIDE

They called it "The Jewel of Lower Manhattan "the gateway to Down town "one of the major catalysts for the economic recovery" of the area around Ground Zero. But New...

CONJURING CAMELOT

Forty-eight years, some of them tear- stained, have passed since John F. Kennedy was elected president of the United States; now Barack Obama seems to wonder whether Camelot can be...

THE REV'S STELLAR STANDUP

Al Sharpton yesterday had two pointed words for former President Bill Clin ton and the verbal darts he's been aiming at Barack Obama. Said Sharpton: "Shut up." No kidding. That's...

NYC BUDGET BLUES

LAST week, Mayor Bloom berg presented a $61.7 bil lion budget that's the right prescription for a mild economic downturn followed by a quick recovery. Problem is, the economy may...

BEAR TRAPS FOR THE ECONOMY

HOUSE Democrats and White House Republi cans have conspired to set a bear trap for the next president: Whatever goosing of the economy their "stimulus" bill achieves will come at...

A 'NO' TO SLIME

WHAT does Ted Ken nedy's endorsement of Barack Obama re ally mean? In addition to seriously boosting Obama's chances for the Democratic nomination by anointing him as the generational heir...

TEDDY'S LAST CALL

BOSTON TED Kennedy couldn't help him self. He decided to throw his own last hurrah. "This is the first good thing that's happened to the Republicans all year," said one...

BATTERED BUSH BATTLES ON

THERE was nothing valedictory about Presi dent Bush's final State of the Union Ad dress last night. It was just the case for his remaining agenda - such as it...

LAW & ORDER: FULL HOUSE WHAT DID OLSEN KNOW?

By refusing to interview Mary-Kate Olsen in the death of actor Heath Ledger, the NYPD, the finest police organization in the world, has joined the LAPD as another star-struck entity...

REPORTING ON ALBANY

I am writing to correct the inaccuracies about the inspector general's investigation into allegations made by Public Service Commissioner Cheryl Buley (" 'Cover-Up' in Probe of Gov-Aide 'Threat,' " Jan....

MOGULS' MELEE

After weeks of trading jabs in the press and in legal filings, Liberty Media Corp. Chairman John Malone delivered a potential knockout punch late last night when he sought to...

CME, NYMEX MERGER TALKS MAY STIR BID WAR

Early-stage merger talks between the New York Mercantile Exchange and Chicago-based CME Group could touch off a bidding war for the world's largest energy market, sources involved in the talks...

THE FED IS BETWEEN A ROCK & A HARD PLACE

DOES the Federal Re serve have the chops to go through with another big interest-rate cut tomorrow? We'll know at 2:15 p.m. tomorrow. But the Federal Reserve finds itself in...

EDITOR IS PICKED AT WSJ MAG

The pursuit has ended and the British invasion has begun. Tina Gaudoin, most recently editor of The Times of London's Luxx magazine, has been tapped to be editor of a...

TESTING TIMES

Where Morgan Stanley tried to use force to spark change at the New York Times Co., hedge funds Firebrand Partners and Harbinger Capital Partners are taking a different tack: killing...

SOCGEN REELS AS KERVIEL IS CHARGED

A bundle of surprises continued to unfold yesterday in the world's single biggest trading scandal gripping French bank Société Générale. As investigating judges filed preliminary charges of breach of trust,...

ANOTHER BLACKSTONE BOTCH-UP

The second megadeal signed up last year by Stephen Schwarzman's Blackstone Group is in jeopardy of falling apart. Credit-card payments processor Alliance Data Systems fell 35 percent yesterday after the...

KELLWOOD STOCK SWELLS

Shares of Kellwood surged 17 percent after the maker of Phat Farm and other brands said it will let shareholders decide on a hostile $542 million bid for the company....

HUDSON SQUARE BOOST

THE Hudson Square area has long had a fuzzy identity - north of TriBeCa, West of SoHo, and still associated in many local minds with its printing industry past. In...

RECORD LABELS CALLING QTRAX OUT

The four major record labels are denying claims by digital music provider Qtrax and its CEO Allan Klepfisz that the company has the rights to distribute their songs in a...

WEIRD BUT TRUE

A partially deaf British boy was "cured" after nine years when a small piece of cotton popped out of his ear while he was playing with friends. Jerome Barnes, 11,...

MONTREAL - FRENCH FLAIR IN OUR OWN BACK YARD

You don't have to travel all the way to Europe for a little je ne sais quoí. The beautiful city of Montreal is in the Canadian province of Quebec, just...

THE PAIN EVENTPOSTIE SHINES IN WWE'S SQUARE RING

TIME was, kids dreamed about running away with the circus. These days, kids have those same dreams, only the circus has changed. Instead of Tom Thumb and Chang and Eng,...

OH MY GOTH, MANSON'S HAPPY

MARILYN Manson is a strong, sinister character onstage - ready to make lion chow out of the Christian right and shock the status quo out of complacency - but he...

MPFREE

Download these free MP3s now through Friday at nypost.com: * Virginia Coalition, "Sing Along" The Virginia act gives up its jam-band past in favor of folk-pop melodies off the album,...

STALK THIS WAY

BEING stalked isn't a laughing matter, but stalking someone is definitely something to sing about - just ask the dozens of musicians who've made a mint off songs on the...

QUEEN FOR A PLAY

IT'S not exaggerating to say that in Russell Barr's one- man show, directed by Michael Imperioli, the central character strips himself bare. In "Sisters, Such Devoted Sisters," a drag queen...

STARR REPORT

Judy's benchmark Judy Sheindlin has inked a deal that will keep her on the top-rated "Judge Judy" through 2012. "Judge Judy," which has been TV's number- one court show since...

DONE DEAL

STRIKING writers are set to return to "Mad Men" and "Weeds" - giving two of cable's more popular shows a chance to start their seasons as planned. Both "Mad Men"...

VICK'S DOGS IN REHAB

THE rehabilitation of disgraced NFL star Michael Vick's 22 fight-trained pitbulls is going to be made into a TV series. The dogs - who probably would have been destroyed if...

TRIPLE BYPASS FOR MIKE

MIKE Wallace under went triple-bypass heart surgery over the weekend. Wallace, 89, took his first steps yesterday, just two days after undergoing the procedure in Manhattan, reportedly at Lenox Hill...

SUPER BOWL COULD BE BIGGEST GAME EVER

SUNDAY's Giants-Pat riots battle has all the earmarks to be the most-watched Super Bowl in history, experts say. And with last year's game averaging a staggering 93.1 million viewers, that's...

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED ON FLIGHT 800?

WHO can ever forget that July day, 10 ½ years ago, when we all woke up to the news that Flight 800, a TWA 747 bound to Paris, had crashed...

A FIGHT TO REMEMBER

YOU go to the gym to improve your body - but what about your brain? According to Dr. Majid Fotuhi, a neuroscientist and author of "The Memory Cure," there are...

DUKE CONTINUES TO KEEP ACC ON HEELS

FROM, "The more things change, the more they stay the same," we bring you another remarkable season courtesy of Duke basketball. Duke, not loaded and experienced North Carolina, sits atop...

SPORTS SHORTS

BASEBALL: O's mull Bedard deal Talks between the Mariners and Orioles about a trade involving ace pitcher Erik Bedard are at a standstill. A source said a potential deal that...

ROGER ISSUES OWN REPORT AS REBUTTAL

Roger Clemens' agents released an 18,000-word report yesterday defending their client. Among the words not included in those 18,000, though, are: steroids, human growth hormone, Mitchell Report or Brian McNamee....

10 MOST SUPER MOMENTS

Muhammad Ali Vs. Joe Frazier World Heavyweight Championship March 8, 1971 Madison Square Garden In what might have been the most electric night in Garden history, Ali (31-0, 26 KOs)...

PRIME TIME FOR BRODEUR

This was supposed to be the season of change. Martin Brodeur was supposed to play less, the Devils were not always going to play their patented defensive-minded trap and the...

EASY DOES IT

CHANDLER, Ariz. - He is forever the little brother, even when the big brother that shares his surname and his DNA is sitting in an Indiana manse 1,800 miles away....

BRADY BACK AT PATRIOT PRACTICE

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - After a week of absence from practice and rampant speculation about the status of his high right ankle sprain, Tom Brady was back in practice with his...

EMBRACE IT ALL, GIANTS

Boomer Esiason, former quarterback with the Bengals and Jets, now is an on-air personality with CBS, MSG and WFAN, and a radio analyst for Westwood One on Monday Night Football....

CALL JINTS BIG BLACK

CHANDLER, Ariz. - The Giants were more like Men in Black than Big Blue when they arrived here yesterday. Following sartorial director Antonio Pierce's edict, most of the Giants were...

FLU BITES ROSS

The Giants' trip here did not exactly get off to a rousing start. Their charter flight was ready to roll but ended up getting delayed for 45 minutes when rookie...

'BAD' GUYS ARE GOOD FOR GAME

PHOENIX - OK, so the Patriots got caught videotaping the Jets' signals. There are worse things to have over your head at a Super Bowl. And we don't mean Bill...

SUPE LOSS HAUNTS AMANI

CHANDLER, Ariz. - Amani Toomer was all business. While most of his young teammates could barely contain their excitement, the Giants' veteran wideout wore a serene look of been-there-before calm...

MATCHUP OF THE DAY

PLAXICO BURRESS vs. ELLIS HOBBS Hobbs has struggled at times against tall receivers, so the Patriots aren't going to leave him on an island against Burress. Not with Hobbs giving...

WELK-OME ADDITION

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - On March 5, when a certain transaction was officially announced, more than a few eyebrows were raised around the NFL. The Dolphins' trade that day of Wes...

PATS OT SPEAKS LIGHT-LY

PHOENIX - It's a dirty job, having to defend yourself against accusations of being a dirty player, but yesterday Matt Light reluctantly did so, answering Osi Umenyiora's charges. "I finally...

HE'S HOT RODNEY

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - Rodney Harrison makes his living straddling the fine line between being a tough hitter who draws fear from his opponents and being a dirty player opponents despise....

HAPPY NON-CAMPER

CHANDLER, Ariz. - It made for a good laugh yesterday when during the Giants' first official press conference on Arizona soil someone asked Michael Strahan about his training camp holdout....

BLUE STREAK: LAS VEGAS AWASH IN GIANT BETS

The road warrior Giants picked up more than a few friends in Las Vegas on their way to Arizona. Bettors are supporting red-hot Big Blue in Sunday's Super Bowl by...

COM-PLAX NUMBERS

CHANDLER, Ariz. - Before ever setting foot here in the Valley of the Sun, Plaxico Burress let The Post - and thus the world - in on his prediction for...

PLAXICO BRAVADO COULD BE A BIG NO-NO

CHANDLER, Ariz. - From the start of this magical, miracle season, but especially during their stunning playoff run, the Giants have been walking the walk, a far cry from their...

ISLES BANK ON PLAYOFF SPOT

Bill Guerin watched from San Jose a year ago as the Islanders made a mad dash for the playoffs at the end of the regular season, qualifying by beating the...

CRAWFORD OPENS UP TO CURRY

LOS ANGELES - Jamal Crawford has a message for his buddy Eddy Curry: Get open and we'll get you the rock. Crawford responded to Curry's claim after the Knicks' 106-104...

ZEKE'S IN LA-LA LAND

LOS ANGELES - Isiah Thomas arrived in La-La land yesterday and did what everyone does here - he sucked up to Kobe Bryant, saying he is amazed the Lakers superstar...

METS, SOX BUTT HEADS OVER SANTANA

Teams involved in the Johan Santana sweepstakes confirm the Twins have intensified their efforts in the past 48 hours to generate the best offers from the main suitors - and...

YOU'RE NYET KIDDING

IN theory, this should be a get- healthy week for the Nyets, who've misplaced nine straight games, including three at the I-Nod Center, and whose "leaders" have lost their minds....

FED-UP KIDD: IT'S TIME TO MOVE ON

There is no longer any doubt. Jason Kidd wants out. No extension, no infusion of talent, nothing will satisfy the Nets' star point guard, who yesterday acknowledged, "It's time for...

SATHER SHOPS FOR MALIK DEAL

RALEIGH - Until Glen Sather lowers his asking price or another GM is willing to meet it between now and the Feb. 26 trade deadline, Marek Malik remains a Ranger....

CONE, YES NEAR DEAL

The Yankees are on the brink of acquiring an elite pitcher. No, it is not Johan Santana. David Cone and YES have had extensive discussions to return the one-time star...

IN FROM THE COLD

ONE of the things that's great about the United States, once you start paying attention, is how different things are everywhere you go. This flies in the face of the...

HIT LIST

1) Great drives Route 82 from Montchanin to Doe Run is a great start, but don't miss Route 100 from Montchanin to Chadds Ford, where you can continue on Creek...

HEART SHAPED

THE infestation has begun. There are mountain ranges of them on our desk, terabytes of them in our inbox. Valentine's Day hotel deals - if we had a dime for...

EXCITED GIANTS TOUCH DOWN

Even the flight attendant noticed how pumped up the Giants were on their plane ride to Arizona. The Giants touched down a little later than scheduled tonight, 4 p.m. local...

RUDY HINTS FLA. IS HIS LAST STAND

FORT MYERS, Fla. - Rudy Giuliani hinted yesterday that he might quit the race for president if he loses badly in today's Florida primary. "When it's Wednesday morning, we'll make...

EXCITED GIANTS TOUCH DOWN

Even the flight attendant noticed how pumped up the Giants were on their plane ride to Arizona. The Giants touched down a little later than scheduled tonight, 4 p.m. local...

EXCITED GIANTS TOUCH DOWN

Even the flight attendant noticed how pumped up the Giants were on their plane ride to Arizona. The Giants touched down a little later than scheduled tonight, 4 p.m. local...

Jamal, Nate must find Curry

MARC BERMANLOS ANGELES - The Knicks have lost such respect in L.A. following Mike Dunleavy's slam, they couldn't even schedule today's practice at UCLA's Pauley Pavilion, shooed to the student...

Excited Giants touch down

Even the flight attendant noticed how pumped up the Giants were on their plane ride to Arizona.The Giants touched down a little later than scheduled tonight, 3 p.m. local time,...