February 9, 2008
Follow what leader?
Jake Ades, a 13-year-old from Port Washington, and his father Joe were selected as âSports Writers for the Dayââ as part of a charity auction for Autism Speaks. The Ades...
Philly Throwdown
So the calendar says itâs 2008, but looking up at the Rangersâ 2-0 win today over the Flyers, it very well could have been 1988. The Flyers and Rangers were...
YAHOO! BOARD REJECTS $44 BILLION MICROSOFT BID
An up-against-the-ropes Jerry Yang and Yahoo! have rejected Microsoft's unsolicited $31 a share offer and are expected to break the bad news to the software behemoth tomorrow, according to a...
Oscar Watch: Looks Like the Show Will Go On
The Writers Guild announced today it has finalized a deal with the studios that largely follows the patterns set by the directors, Variety reports. If it's accepted by the board...
Early Box Office: Paris, Vince Shunned
"Both Vince Vaughn and Paris Hilton have added mega-flops to their film resumes,'' writes Steve Mason in his review of early Friday box-office numbers at Fantasy Moguls. "Vaughnâs 'Wild West...
FEDS PROBING BOTOX OVER PATIENT DEATHS
Botox, the anti-aging drug that made Manhattan doctors into wrinkle-removing wizards, is being investigated after patients developed serious and even fatal ailments, the Food and Drug Administration said yesterday. The...
'NOTEWORTHY' SHRINK EXAM
A judge yesterday ordered a psychiatric exam for terror lawyer Lynne Stewart's daughter, who is accused of faking doctors notes to play hooky from her Bronx teaching job. Bronx Supreme...
AN ALL-TIME HIGH FOR TOP CITY SCHOOLS
More students than ever have been offered a coveted seat in the fall at the city's nine specialized high schools, the Department of Education announced yesterday. Nearly 5,400 of the...
COP WHO SHOT KID HAS 'LIGHT' EXCUSE
The brother of a cop who accidentally shot a 1 1/2-year- old Brooklyn boy in the arm said yesterday he was cleaning his gun in the dark because he couldn't...
STEROID DEALER GETS A PASS ON JAIL TIME
Former Mets clubhouse attendant Kirk Radomski was sentenced to five years' probation yesterday in San Francisco after cooperating with the investigation into steroid use in Major League Baseball. He avoided...
AIRTRAIN TO PLANE ON A ROLL
The trains to the plane are taking off. The number of jet-setters who used the Newark and Kennedy airport light-rail links in 2007 soared nearly 13 percent over the previous...
GALS' VALENTINE PLEA: HAVE A HEART
The percentage of disappointed women on Valentine's Day is nearly the same as the percentage of men who don't take the holiday serious. So says a study that found 70...
HANGY SPANKY
A leather-loving submissive was clinging to life yesterday after a freak accident at a Midtown bondage club cut off oxygen to his brain, law-enforcement sources said. A dominatrix at The...
'FAT NICK' LAWYER IN DWI BUST
The lawyer who tried to keep "Fat Nick" Minucci out of jail was busted himself early yesterday - for driving drunk on his way home from a party with the...
'9/11 MEMORIAL' SUICIDE
A distraught German citizen killed himself at Staten Island's Sept. 11 memorial early yesterday. Tobias Ganz, 32, called 911 himself at 4:56 a.m. to report he wanted to commit suicide,...
NEIGHBORS WAGE APT. BUTT BATTLE
A pair of married attorneys is fuming about their "evil," chain-smoking next-door neighbor and are seeking a court order barring her from puffing away in her Upper West Side apartment....
COURT COP'S SIS RELIVES SLAY HORROR
The sister of a Brooklyn court officer killed 32 years ago wept yesterday, the day after her brother's alleged Mafia killer was busted. "It's a good day and a terrible...
MOB RULE LOOMS WITH NO CLEAR SUCCESSOR
One of the biggest mob busts in Mafia history has rocked the Gambino crime family to the core, leaving no clear successor to run street operations. Law-enforcement officials are watching...
GAMBINO KIN'S DIAL AND DASH
Bada-brrrrring. Reputed Gambino capo Nicholas "Little Nick" Corozzo was able to elude the feds' rubout of more than 100 of his associates Thursday - allegedly thanks to a timely, heads-up...
20G FOR DENTIST 'HIT'
The doctor ex-wife of a Queens orthodontist paid her distant cousin nearly $20,000 to kill her former spouse, authorities said yesterday. Mazoltuv Borukhova, 34, allegedly wanted to murder her ex-husband,...
COP WIDOW KOS PAROLE FOR '73 KILLER
In a dramatic about-face, the state Division of Parole has reversed its decision to release a cop-killing kidnapper involved in the sensational hostage siege at a Brooklyn store 35 years...
HILL HAMMERS 'HELMETGATE'
Hillary Clinton yesterday demanded that the Pentagon answer a charge that a contractor skimped on bulletproof material inside troops' combat helmets. Two whistleblowers represented by a Long Island lawyer claim...
'O-MART' OPEN FOR BUSINESS
The Oprah Winfrey empire has expanded by 5,500 square feet - as the talk-show queen opened her first retail store in Chicago full of items "representing" her style. Now there's...
DELEGATE DISSING HILL
WASHINGTON - In an ominous sign for the Clinton campaign, a New Jersey "superdelegate" who holds a valuable ticket to vote at the Democratic National Convention is bailing out on...
BOOZY O'BRIEN GOING 'INSIDE' A REHAB TANK
Pat O'Brien, the troubled co-host of "The Insider," is back in rehab - and could lose his job this time. "O'Brien and his doctors felt this is the best course...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
STATEN ISLAND A 20-year-old man was arrested for shooting an acquaintance in a New Brighton deli, authorities said yesterday. Gun-toting Akeem Hines entered the Castleton Deli on Castleton Avenue and...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
When you mock opponents with electrocution, perhaps "rooting interest" has gone too far. A Buffalo sports bar has set up a mock electric chair so fans can torment a dummy...
'ROCKETTE' GOT FUEL INJECTED
Brian McNamee told congressional investigators he injected Roger Clemens' wife with human growth hormone as she prepared for a Sports Illustrated swimsuit-edition photo session five years ago, The Post has...
'PIMP' SLUR ON CHELSEA
WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton threatened yesterday to pull out of an upcoming debate hosted by MSNBC after one of its correspondents said on air that daughter Chelsea was being...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
STATEN ISLAND A 20-year-old man was arrested for shooting an acquaintance in a New Brighton deli, authorities said yesterday. Gun-toting Akeem Hines entered the Castleton Deli on Castleton Avenue and...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Fri.: 349; Lucky Sum: 16 / Midday Win-4 Fri.: 1788; Lucky Sum: 24 / Evening Nos. Fri.: 444; Lucky Sum: 12; Evening Win-4 Fri.: 5006; Lucky...
NY'S GAY-MARRIAGE MUDDLE
A five-judge panel of the Appellate Di vision of the state Supreme Court re cently ruled unanimously that state agencies must recognize same-sex marriages performed out of state. The Court...
AN OOPS OF AN EXPOSÉ
The New York Times was forced to issue a mea culpa Thursday on the latest in its seemingly never-ending stream of "exposés" from the American terrorist detention center at Guantanamo...
LET THEM FUND-RAISE CAKE
Mayor Bloomberg was at his least ap pealing this week, bashing real-es tate firms that donate money to competing political candidates. "I happen to think it's a disgrace," said the...
THIS ROAD SMELLS
LEE COUNTY, FLA. COCONUT Road near Fort Myers looks like any other concrete ribbon near hous ing developments, golf courses and shopping malls in this state's booming southwest. But like...
A DULL 'DEBATE'
ONE thing we're learning from this election: These really are differ ent parties. First, look at the Democrats. Listen to the discussion about their strategies: Hillary Clinton needs to win...
BATTLING OVER MCCAIN'S INTRO
SEN. John McCain's managers, fearing an unfavorable reaction at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Thursday, wanted to precede his speech with a video of Ronald Reagan praising McCain. Talk-show...
PENSIONS POLITICS
"Playing Politics With Pensions" (Editorial, Feb. 4) characterizes my filing of shareholder resolutions with two dozen firms to discourage discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity as...
IS MCCAIN THE 'RIGHT' MAN TO LEAD THE GOP?
Why deal from the bottom of the deck all of the things you don't like about Sen. John McCain, only to then say that is who he is ("Once John...
ADS LOOKS FOR DEAL, DROPS BLACKSTONE SUIT
Alliance Data Systems dropped its lawsuit against The Blackstone Group yesterday in the hopes that it can reach a deal with the buyout firm to complete the stalled $6.6 billion...
SOS @YAHOO!
Yahoo!'s board yesterday met for the first of two scheduled meetings to discuss responses to Microsoft's $44.6 billion takeover offer as CEO Jerry Yang continued canvassing competitors in a last-ditch...
TIFFANY: 2008 WILL TWINKLE
Tiffany & Co. gave a surprisingly glittery forecast for 2008 sales and earnings despite recent worries that luxury spending is slowing, boosting its shares more than 4 percent yesterday. The...
SPORTS SHORTS
HOOPS: Hall loses Gause Seton Hall guard Paul Gause will miss the rest of the season with a knee injury, the school said. Gause tore the anterior cruciate ligament in...
STORM BREWING: ST. JOHN'S EYES 3RD STRAIGHT WIN
St. John's point guard Eugene Lawrence, the team's lone senior, has the difficult task of trying to run an offense surrounded by eight freshmen. "I think Eugene Lawrence deserves a...
DEVILS FOWL UP
The Devils' coach essentially threw up his hands. If they don't turn themselves around tonight, they should brace for correction by trade. "It's tough trying to get this group, for...
A GIANT SUCCESS
There is no rest for the weary, not even for the Super Bowl champions. And so, Giants general manager Jerry Reese and his entire scouting department yesterday were gathered together...
STOUDAMIRE STANDS BY HIS OLD PAL ZEKE
Damon Stoudamire has been friends with Isiah Thomas since the latter made him his first draft pick back in 1995. He's watched as Thomas' Knick tenure has gone sour, and...
EIGHTH BLUNDER
Last night summed up why the Knicks absolutely stink - not because of talent, but their smarts, or lack of. On a night that looked like the most pleasant of...
CUTS DEEP: STEPH KO'ED BY SURGERY
It's definite. Stephon Marbury is out for the season. Because his ankle surgery 2 ½ weeks ago was more complex than anticipated, Marbury will not return, according to two people...
KRSTIC GIVES NETS REAL JUMP 'START' VS. 'CATS
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Nenad Krstic made his first start since Nov. 14. And going in, he admitted feeling like it was the first time. Only he didn't want it to...
LEADING KIDD
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - For weeks, if not months, Jason Kidd has been under constant scrutiny, especially since his desire to be traded became common knowledge. Undeniably, he has looked at...
RANGERS TURN TO VALIQUETTE TO BUST SLUMP
The Rangers followed up their three-game road winning streak with back-to-back losses at home, but coach Tom Renney insisted yesterday the defeats did not undo the gains made during the...
'IDLE' CHATTER
When it comes to Carl Pavano's potential impact with the Yankees, team VP Billy Connors notes both the pitcher's talent and previous excellence. "This guy, he was a hell of...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
When you mock opponents with electrocution, perhaps "rooting interest" has gone too far. A Buffalo sports bar has set up a mock electric chair so fans can torment a dummy...
WHAT'S UP
TODAY FOR REEL: Never mind what some grown-up studio exec thinks your little ones will like. The flicks at the Wingspan Arts Kids Film Festival were made by kids, for...
BOOK IT!
HOW old do you have to be before you look at your first book? Apparently, fresh from the womb will do. Fisher-Price and HarperCollins last week rolled out a line...
SLAVES TO FASHION
WHEN factory workers in China spend 60-hour weeks sewing labels onto sportswear for $4 a day, it's called a sweatshop. When young girls travel from far and wide to set...
PROMPT DRESSES
There were many questions on the minds of those at the Sean John show at Cipriani last night: Why is there a gay busboy theme? Has someone already coined the...
MERYL CHANNELS ANNA; SALT-N-PEPA CHANNEL CHANNELS
* In "The Devil Wears Prada," Meryl Streep's thinly veiled Anna Wintour character struck fear into the hearts of aspiring young designers. In reality, Streep's been spied checking out up-and-coming...
'PROJECT' PROJECTIONS
Harvey Weinstein, Padma Lakshmi, Tyson Beckford, Nikki Taylor and Meryl Streep took their spots in the front row yesterday, but the real stars were "Project Runway" judges Nina Garcia, Michael...
MUSICAL SEDATION INSTEAD OF OVATION
THE 1970 musical "Ap plause," though based on "All About Eve," was really all about Lauren Bacall, playing, as it were, Bette Davis. At City Center Thursday night, for the...
WHAT'S UP
TODAY FOR REEL: Never mind what some grown-up studio exec thinks your little ones will like. The flicks at the Wingspan Arts Kids Film Festival were made by kids, for...
BOOK IT!
HOW old do you have to be before you look at your first book? Apparently, fresh from the womb will do. Fisher-Price and HarperCollins last week rolled out a line...
SLAVES TO FASHION
WHEN factory workers in China spend 60-hour weeks sewing labels onto sportswear for $4 a day, it's called a sweatshop. When young girls travel from far and wide to set...
PROMPT DRESSES
There were many questions on the minds of those at the Sean John show at Cipriani last night: Why is there a gay busboy theme? Has someone already coined the...
MERYL CHANNELS ANNA; SALT-N-PEPA CHANNEL CHANNELS
* In "The Devil Wears Prada," Meryl Streep's thinly veiled Anna Wintour character struck fear into the hearts of aspiring young designers. In reality, Streep's been spied checking out up-and-coming...
'PROJECT' PROJECTIONS
Harvey Weinstein, Padma Lakshmi, Tyson Beckford, Nikki Taylor and Meryl Streep took their spots in the front row yesterday, but the real stars were "Project Runway" judges Nina Garcia, Michael...
CITY UNDER WATER
THAT cheeseburger you're planning to eat for lunch today could destroy the world. You read that right: The production of the lowly cheeseburger, consumed in mass quantities everyday by hungry...